Compared to the Chesapeake in the seventeenth century, people in New England were healthier physically, had more stable religion and better family values. ... "Plagued by horrendous mortality, the Chesapeake remained, for most of the seventeenth century, a land of immigrants rather than of settled families." ... There was no separation of church and state in the seventeenth century in New England society. ...

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During the seventeenth century, the attractions of cheap land encouraged children to move away from the homesite to try their fortunes elsewhere. ... Scattered settlements in the Chesapeake colonies during the seventeenth century created conditions that made it impossible for the skilled workman to practice his trade. ... In the seventeenth century, the transplanted Englishmen in America lived in a society whose social framework resembled what he had known at home. ...

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Best known as a leader of a 1689 New York rebellion that came to bear his name, Jacob Leisler was one of late seventeenth-century New York's most prominent merchants, land developers, and foremost exponent of Reformed religious fundamentalism and Orangist political ideology. ... Best known as a leader of a 1689 New York rebellion that came to bear his name, Jacob Leisler was one of late seventeenth-century New York's most prominent merchants, land developers, and foremost exponent of Reformed religious fundamentalism and Orangist political ideology. ...

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The seventeenth century was a time of change for those who grew disconnected in the Church of England and everything related to catholism. The Puritans believed that the Church of England had become a product of political struggles and was beyond reform. They believed that America would be the...

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Despite being settled and originally colonized by mainly English settlers, the New England colonies and the Chesapeake region were distinctly different by the beginning of the eighteenth century. A series of events leading up to the beginning of the seventeenth century can account for the vast differences between these two colonial regions. ...

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THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES The people who settled in the New England Colonies were the Separatist Puritans called Pilgrims. They came over in 1620 and landed at Plymouth. Their ship was called The Mayflower. They settled in what is now Massachusetts.The Puritans came in the seventeenth century ...

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Tricia Chow 9/28/03 2* This land is your land Geography was a major factor in the way people lived in the three mayor areas of English settlement in North America. New England's thin rocky soil and cold winters contrasted with the mid- Atlantic region's fertile plains and mild climate and the...

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By the mid eighteenth century the population of British America was flourishing, and had risen to approximately one and-a-half million people across thirteen colonies. ... During the early seventeenth century migrants from Britain, France and Spain settled along the Atlantic Seaboard of North America, and in the Gulf of St Lawrence. ... The American colonists were quite content for the one hundred and fifty years prior to the mid eighteenth century. ...

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By the mid eighteenth century the population of British America was flourishing, and had risen to approximately one and-a-half million people across thirteen colonies. ... During the early seventeenth century migrants from Britain, France and Spain settled along the Atlantic Seaboard of North America, and in the Gulf of St Lawrence. ... The American colonists were quite content for the one hundred and fifty years prior to the mid eighteenth century. ...

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What does it mean to be taken captive? According to Webster's dictionary a captive is one who is forcibly confined, subjugated, or enslaved. It is obviously not a desire for anyone to become a captive of war, however this was the case for hundreds of colonists both French and English dur...

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By the seventeenth century, the Southern Colonies (Georgia, Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia), New England (Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire), and the Chesapeake region (Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, and New Jersey) had already developed into three distinct societies who, despite coming from the same mother country and bearing similarities, functioned as three separate regions. ...

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The people who settled in the New England Colonies were the Separatist Puritans called Pilgrims. They came over in 1620 and landed at Plymouth. Their ship was called The Mayflower. They settled in what is now Massachusetts.The Puritans came in the seventeenth century and wanted to gain religous free...

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Volume1: TO 1877 Nation of Nations Morgan, Edmund The Puritan Family: Religion and Domestic Relations in Seventeenth Century New England , Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop Underwood, Devon Women's Roles in the American Colonial Period http://info-center.ccit.arizona.edu/~ws/ws200/fall97/grp11/part1.htm ...

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PURITANISM AND THE FOUNDING OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY Puritans were a group of religious people who founded the colony of Massachusetts Bay in 1628, with dreams of creating "a city upon a hill" for Godly people like themselves. They had to deal with many obstacles in establishing the colony, such...

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