The communities of colonial America varied tremendously as well. ... The people of colonial America, and the areas in which they lived have been classified into three major regions of colonial America: the North, the Middle region, and the South. ... The communities of the New England colonies were more industrial when compared to other regions of colonial America. ... This is very different from the government of colonial Americans. In colonial America, women could not vote or participate in any major forms of governing of a colony. ...

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A) Believing they had the right from God to expand their territories, the Puritans oftentimes used force to take over the Native American lands in New England. ... While both colonial societies were located in the same continent, there were important environmental differences that greatly affected each region's economy. ... A) As a result, by 1772, New England was exporting "£152,000" worth of fish as the chart about the value of colonial exports shows. ... This resulted in a steady African population of only 5% in New England from 1650 to 1770 as suggested by the chart...

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In depth, each factor exploited slavery differently but also as an entity; all this established slavery as the primary reason of Colonial America's success. ... Agriculture would later become the backbone of colonial America and took the place of gold as the most sought after market. ... Colonial men and women alone could not provide enough work forces needed. ... Slaves were to be located where ever large plantations needed to be served. ... Those who were Fortunate enough to make it through the unforgiving passage would end their lives on the plantations. ...

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Life of a Slave Indentured servants were the first form of slavery in America. ... This proved to be too costly so the colonials ventured to the Dutch trade of slavery. ... African slavery was much more efficient from the colonial's perspective. ... Once the slaves arrived to America they were sold as merchandise. ... They were actual human beings capable of all that the colonials were capable of. ...

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The mining of silver in Colonial Spanish America and gold mining in Colonial Portuguese America dominated the international commerce and economic markets of the world for many centuries. The factors that played key role in extraction, production and transportation of silver in Colonial Spanish America and gold in Colonial Portuguese America gives us an understanding of why and when silver monopolized the European markets and then later declined in value giving gold a boost to become a dominant method of exchange and how it impacted the lives of mine workers. ... Also when the sugar industry...

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We see the different class systems of colonial America and the new farming techniques of growing corn, tobacco, and grazing cattle. ... In chapter three we witness the atrocities of the birth of slavery in order to support first Europeans plantations in the Americans. In Ira Berlin's essay "Human Cargo: From Africa to America " we are introduced to the plantation. ... The Middle Passage was between Africa and the Americas. ... Next we read the story of a hard working Indentured Servant named Daniel Clockers, whose life and family would be the ideal example for a modern colonial family. ...

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During this time of the 17th and 18th centuries, the slave trade was very popular and was beginning to be brought to the America's. ... Therefore slavery became a popular and profitable option which many plantation owners turned to. ... This is when slaves became the laborers that the plantation owners set their eyes on. Demand for slaves in the southern colonies flourished and soon after every plantation and farm consisted of numerous slaves. ... With all of these factors adding up, the drive toward the Southern Colonial slavery not only helped the economy, but also added various cult...

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The years following 1783, welcomed an America free of British rule and taxation - an isolated America with few enemies and vast natural resources. The Treaty of Paris entitled America to large new land masses as well as rivers and fresh water lakes. ... Exploration, fisheries, mining and plantations quickly fueled the success of white entrepreneurial colonists formerly held back by British law. ... Native Americans, many of whom sided with the British in hopes of stopping colonial expansion onto native land, had large tribal territories relinquished to the newly formed United States after the...

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The United States of America was founded as a country where "all men are created equal". ... During the colonial period, two economic systems were created and separated by free and slave labor. ... Slave labor drove the plantations of the South. The differences between the regions were small and insignificant during the colonial era. ... The social structure of the two regions was very different in the colonial period. ...

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Robert Beverley's "The History and Present State of Virginia"," is important to the study of the origins of slavery as the first published history of a British colony by a native of North America. It is unique in its provision of information on early life in colonial Virginia, and could provide useful testimony from his access to official records as an authoritative figure. Beverley had accumulated much influence and wealth as the owner of a prominent plantation, and as a government official representing Virginia in England. ... The ignorance and prejudice he encountered in England motiva...

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Several areas of Colonial America were inhabited by aristocrats, those interested in industry and wealth. ... Counting the numerous Indian tribes during Colonial America is virtually unfeasible, but should be accounted for when observing the ethnic and religious diversity of America. Statistically, if the diversity of the continent were judged on a scale from zero to ten, ten being absolutely diverse, Colonial America would be regarded as a seven. ... The southern colonies were dominated by a plantation economy of tobacco and rice. ... The tolerance of diversity in colonial America has been...

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The institution of slavery in colonial America, mainly informed by labor struggles, implied a socioeconomic divide between societies with slaves and slave societies. ... Due to the fluidity of colonial slavery, the congenial circumstances of the charter generation–equitable social order, compatibly to conventional English practices, bearable race relations and ill-defined slave laws - vanished with the rise of plantation slavery. The first age of slavery in North America, featured societies with slaves characterizing the Charter Generation. ... Thus, the Plantation generation of slave...

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Some historian believe, that even since colonial times, America was working its way to a civil war. ... Without slaves the Plantation owners would not be able to maintain the same amount of profit, and so slavery was a part of southern culture. ... Without the use of slaves, the southern way of life would be destroyed, as white plantation owners had no other way to farm their crops and still remain profitable. ... A fourth issue which contributed to the start of an American Civil War was , ways of viewing the world. ... The separation caused by these issue would eventually cause the beginni...

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In Becoming America, author Jon Butler persuasively argues that the late American colonial period of 1680-1770 was one of monumental change, the end result being an essentially "modern- culture. ... Indeed, Butler paints a picture of a late colonial culture not only radically reshaped by immigration, but essentially the same as modern American culture. ... Butler proves that these characteristics of American culture and the American people have their origins in the late colonial era. ... Likewise, rich plantation owners who leeched off the labor of their slaves came to dominate the southern ...

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The Black slaves of colonial America brought their own culture from Africa to the new land. ... These songs originated in plantation fields as work songs, and were later sung in churches of Black congregations. ... Incidentally, there was an outpouring of African-American art after emancipation. ... Science America's earliest African-American scientists and inventors are largely unknown -- their contributions to America buried in anonymity...While historians increasingly recognize that blacks had a significant impact on the design and construction of plantations and public bu...

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By the time of president Thomas Jefferson's death in 1826, slavery had taken a dramatic course in American society. ... Some families had become detached from one another because of the slave trade between plantation owners. ... Second, the so-called "plantation revolution" not only increased the size of plantations, but made them increasingly more productive and efficient economic contributors. ... During the early colonial period, many planters resisted to adhering to the idea of converting slaves to Christianity out of a fear that the act of a baptism would change a slave's legal ...

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Africans were transported to America to be sold throughout the continent as slave labourers. The slave traders then brought back mostly agricultural products, produced by the slaves in plantations mainly sugar and tobacco until these stocks depleted and cotton became the main commodity involved in Industrial Revolution. ... That being the Portuguese settlers in the Americas or the "New World" were given loans with easy repayment and interest plans to buy more slaves and develop sugar plantations. ... France was a predominant figure in the trading and exploitation of African slaves, ...

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African Americans were enslaved on small farms, large plantations, inside homes, in the fields, and in manufacturing. ... Genovese discusses how enslaved people created community within the "plantation setting". ... In effort to further determine the differences among the social classes, Genovese describes how legal codes gradually made racism the official policy of the colonial governments. ... In some cases, young children of both races played together on farms and plantations. African American children might also become attached to white caretakers, such as the mistress, and white children ...

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The first Africans that were brought to America were not slaves. ... The "giddy multitude" made up of blacks and un-happy freemen, fought the most-significant rebellion, in colonial America. ... Still these African American slaves pressed on against something truly evil. ... Slave revolts scattered the plantations and elites used "landless whites" to put down slave revolts with force. The 17th century produced African Americans that would change some aristocratic whites assumptions of African Americans. ...

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The first Africans that were brought to America were not slaves. ... The "giddy multitude" made up of blacks and un-happy freemen, fought the most-significant rebellion, in colonial America. ... Still these African American slaves pressed on against something truly evil. ... Slave revolts scattered the plantations and elites used "landless whites" to put down slave revolts with force. The 17th century produced African Americans that would change some aristocratic whites assumptions of African Americans. ...

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For example, the colonial powers built new communications and transportation systems, established universities, and introduced modern medical practices. ... Many colonial administrations were insensitive to local customs and destroyed old ways of life. ... The small scale of slave holdings and that intimacy imposed by urban architecture produced a slave society necessarily more fluid and humane than that of many plantations. ... The poor in South America conformed to no set pattern. ... The colonial economy served as an arena where people struggled to satisfy their material needs especially...

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The Native Americans and Africans Slaves are two prominent groups seen in the Colonial Era with great influence, difficult challenges, and cultures that shaped the colonies into how we see them today. ... In the Colonial Era, Native Americans had a community with a rich culture that defines them. ... The Native Americans disguised themselves in the image to look like the Americans or the white people. ... Although the white men saw Native Americans a lot differently than themselves, this also happened later on during the Colonial Era with the white man's relationship to their slaves. ... ...

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The Haitian, Mexican, and most Latin American revolutions were inspired by the Enlightenment ideas. These ideas encouraged the Americans of revolting against the English (1783) in order to become a nation. ... But after throwing out their colonial masters, the newly freed countries had to set living conditions to create a new society that worked better than the last. ... While Haiti's economy was based on the sugar cane plantations, Mexico's economy was based in agriculture and mining. After all the riots and wars, plantations, agricultural fields, and mines were destroyed. ...

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This movie takes place during the American Revolutionary War illustrating life during the colonial era. ... "When talking about the history of this great country, one can never forget that America was built upon the genocide of the Native Americans and the enslavement of African people and it is criminal to say otherwise" Lee added. ... The truth is slaves were an expensive luxury to plantation owners and its foolish to believe these people would carelessly damage their investment. ... Following the Civil War most slaves returned to the plantations in which they were formally enslaved...

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In addition to affecting eachother the early development of America before 1760 has influenced our society today. ... Massachusetts did not rely heavily on slaves in their economy and they did not have a plantation system. ... Jamestown was a joint stock company looking for gold and silver in the new world and ended up with slave ran plantations. ... The south's interaction with both slaves and Native Americans helped shape their social development. ... Massachusetts set standards for education and their trade policies helped develop Americas foreign relations. ...

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