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    People should move to the Southern Colonies. The climate in the South is humid. In the summer months, the temperature ranges from 70 to 80 degrees fahrenheit. The winter months the temperature ranges from 40 to 50 degrees fahrenheit. The climate is good for farming, which is why farming is common in the Southern Colonies. The Southern Colonies have about 100 miles of the Atlantic Ocean. Rivers and Swampy areas also fill the land, along with the forest.The waterways allow for fishing,…

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    The indecisive, inefficient leadership in the Virginia colony of Jamestown and the complications of succession and religious inequality in Maryland established a poor precedent for England’s experiment in the New World. The Massachusetts Bay Colony sought to change that precedent. Founded in 1629 and lead by Puritan leader John Winthrop, the settlement was conceived with the intention of escaping both…

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    Jamestown and Plymouth were the two original colonies that settled in America, although these two colonies came to America about the same point of time they didn’t have the similar reasons for why to head out to the new land. Both these colonies had many similarities as well as many differences. Despite the regional settlement of both colonies were around the same place as Virginia was the only South of Massachusetts, yet the conductions for both colonies…

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    in developing the British colonies in North America, but it was not the primary reason. Religion was definitely the most significant factor in characterizing the British colonies. The differences in religion of New England, the Chesapeake, and the Southern colonies had a much greater effect than those in geography and politics. Geography did help create distinctions amongst the three areas in the British colonies, New England, the Chesapeake, and the Southern colonies. In New England, the…

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    relationship between Britain and the colonies was evolving as time went on. As it first started the colonies thought they were better off by standing as individual colonies because it would be better for each colony to handle its own governing instead of becoming one united unit. They hoped this would eliminate Britain from gaining too much authority against the colonies. This may have worked for some time, but British had a war to pay for and started to tax the colonies to pay their debt off.…

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    winters of New England, the thirteen original colonies grew and prospered in completely different ways. All thirteen of the original colonies were settled for different reasons, and as a result had different tactics for survival. They developed different types of industry, economies, government, agriculture, and religion. Not everything went according to plan, but in the end, they are the reason modern day America is the way it is. The thirteen original colonies realized soon after settlement…

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    Unlike the early colonies of MA and VA places were filling up with diversity in its people the Dutch, Swedish were forming unique communities that had their own customs and traditions. In these colonies were shaped by overseas influences with a twist with the goal of creating perfected ideal than-than the one they were leaving behind. Virginia and the Carolinas were shaped by a humid, hot and near rivers and tides environment. Diseases were prosperous. A suitable happy middle was in Pa NY and…

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    The Roanoke Colony was and still is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of all time. The Lost Colony, which is another name for the Roanoke Colony, was colonized on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. Queen Elizabeth, the queen of England at that time, had wanted to make a colony in the "New World" to earn profit and to claim the land as England's. There were two attempts of colonization on Roanoke Island by England. The first attempt set place in 1585, and was made up with 100 men. These…

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    thirteen colonies in America during the early to mid 1700s, there were the New England colonies, Middle colonies and Southern colonies. There was also a large population growth. The people moved to the colonies that best fit the travelers religion, lifestyle, and where land was available. These people had different ways of life and thinking. The New England colonies consisted of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire in 1730. The people that lived in the New England…

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    American Colonies that affected other countries and colonies in different degrees. One of the most important aspect are economical changes that made significant impacts through out the "global community" during this turbulent period. The dramatic growth of slave populations in southern colonies during 1700-1770 let slaves' masters, merchants, and the British monarchs extremely benefited from them, because they produced around 90 percents of the total British North American Colonies'…

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