By building huge colonies, extensive road systems and for other technological advances, the colonizers greatly changed the face of our nation. ... Each of the different colonies talked, walked and had different kinds of manners. ... The overall health of early Americans was far better in the Northern colonies than in the South. ... The Southern ideal was country life. ... (Larkin 202) In the colonies, death is very common. ...

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First of all, the conflict was partially economic because the colonies were full of natural resources and King George was interested in the money that he could get from them. The King and Parliament, in an effort to gain more money from the colonies, oppressed the colonists with heavy taxes. Because King George III wanted more income from the colonies, he was determined to get it and keep the colonists under control as well. ... Many of the people in the colonies considered themselves American, not English and felt that it was necessary to separate from Britain, no matter what the cost. ... ...

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What does it mean to be an American? What does it mean to be an American slave? These two questions are ideal thematic rhetorical statements that both Crevecoeur and Douglass write about in various ways. Crevecoeur was not born in the United States, but once he arrived here, he was a free man who ma...

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