Seventeenth century Puritans' objective and hope were to form a society devoted to God. ... Therefore, it can be said that seventeenth century Puritans' ethic had both practical and religious value (Reef, 2013). ... Both seventeenth and eighteenth century immigrants were hard workers. Seventeenth century Puritans worked hard because they needed to depend on themselves to improve their lot in the American wilderness while still looking after their soul and qualifying to receive the salvation of an angry God. ... It changed between the seventeenth and the eighteenth century, and will...

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Through out the centuries slavery has been a huge part of our history dating all the way back to the Spanish Empire in the sixteenth century. ... The rise of slavery dates back to the middle of the sixteenth century whenever the Spanish Empire was establishing in America. ... In the seventeenth century nearly two-thirds of the new English settlers came as indentured servants. ... During the seventeenth century, the shipping of African slaves became a major international business. ... In the early eighteenth century about three-quarters of the urban population owned at least one slave. ...

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The ministers and magistrates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and all the women who wrote history through the Civil War, wrote a form of providential history. ... In the eighteenth century, as the European Enlightenment came to America, history took on a secular and naturalistic cast. ... Through most of the eighteenth century and into the early twentieth century, American history was the story of the progress of the "Empire of Liberty." George Bancroft, the most distinguished American historian of the mid-nineteenth century, organized the history of America around three the...

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Moreover, beginning in the seventeenth century, a burgeoning slave trade saw Africans captured and brought to America in bondage, separated from their relations and sold, leaving individuals with no point of familiarity: forced into slavery, on a new continent, without kin or social contacts (Sullivan 21). ...

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