By bringing along wives and children it suggests, particularly pertaining to this document, that these newcomers not only wanted to stay permanently in the New World, but to also build new lives for their families. ... With the cultivation of this cash crop an abundance of plantations arose in this region, as shown by River Plantations in Virginia, the want and need for personal wealth is apparent. ...
Pemulwuy was about thirty and had a wife and two children, a boy and a girl. ... Many of the women were raped and were soon the bearers of white children. ... Along the banks of the Parramatta River were the English soldiers, lined and ready for battle. ... His arms and legs were tied with rope and he was dragged several times through a fire before he was dragged to a river, thrown in then shot. ...
By the 18s, productions were no longer limited to the cottage industry; steam engines were invented and provided faster modes of transportation, instead of horses, cities were able to move beyond rivers and sources of water to other cities. ... Working conditions were an even harsher system, commissioners intended to make the workhouses as much like as prisons as possible, they established a severe discipline that exploited workers, especially children and women. ... Although paid 1/10 of a man's salary, children and women did not try to join workers unions or go on strikes, which made ...
"My friend you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie; Dulche et Decorum est Pro patria mori- it is sweet and right to die for ones country. ... Concrete Images- Euphemistic Images of England, its geography," Washed by the rivers, blest by the sons of home," "And laughter learnt of friends and happiness, "under an English heaven" Rupert Brooke. ...
They arrived at the Chesapeake Bay area, came up river about 40 miles made landfall and founded Jamestown, the first of the British Colonies. ... They found that their children and values were being corrupted by the Dutch so in September of 1620 about 100 of them climbed aboard the Mayflower and headed for the New World. ...
Factors such as: The Agricultural Revolution, population growth, financial innovations (encouraged people to invest and trade), the Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution (brought up mechanical and technological challenges), rivers and canals, coal and iron (machines were made of iron and powered by coal), government policies that encouraged global trade, and, finally the cottage industry which was a transition from rural to industrial economy. ... In 1764, James Hargreaves invented a spinning machine that could fit in small places and could be used by unskilled workers, or even children. ...
