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    A couple of years ago, I moved to the Chesapeake in hopes of finding a new life. A new life that would give me wealth and move me from the poor conditions like no employment, starvation, disease, and homelessness that is in England. In the Chesapeake, most of the people who came from England are mostly single men with no family at all, young people that their age ranges from 15 to 24 years old, the poor and criminals of England, and almost no wealthy people in the colony. Those people who…

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    The reconstruction movement was a time when nobody was free in the North or South. The aftermath of the war left the south without schools, churches, or any type of economy while the North was almost forced to help through the churches need to provide sanctuary to the former slaves in the south. The “freedom” African-Americans received in the reconstruction era was conditional leaving southern African-Americans enslaved once more. While the Civil War’s overall motive was to the free the slaves…

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    Southern Colonies Essay

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    opportunities. And these purposes brought them to settle in new lands. The Southern Colonies consisted of Virginia, Maryland, Chesapeake, and Caribbean Islands where Europeans came for their purposes. The first land was Virginia where a first group of British merchants called themselves as the Virginia Company. This company was divided by two groups. The first settles’ group was the Virginia Company of…

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    The Civil War and its aftermath had great impacts on Native American tribes all across the country. At the start of the war, many tribes had decided to join the Confederacy, mostly because some of their tribe members had owned slaves. Since they were apart of the Confederate States of America, the Confederacy had decided to pay all of the annuities that the Government of the United States had provided. After the Civil War, the tribes that were apart of the Confederacy were severely punished. The…

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    freedoms of religion, conscience and most illogicality the freedom of personal liberty, he owned slaves and viewed Africans as inferior. His views on slavery and race are most prevalent in an essay he published in 1782 entitled Notes on the State of Virginia. Moreover, if a scholar or student carefully analyzes and critiques Jefferson’s essay they will be able to gleam irreplaceable insight into several concepts including; personal biases…

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    During colonial America, lying on the eastern side of the continent were the New England colonies in the north and the Chesapeake colonies in the south. New England colonies composed states such as MA, RI, and CT while Chesapeake colonies contain states like MD, VA and the Carolinas. With these two colonies separated, they share similarities as well as differences. Slavery, politics and religion are the most important key facts that have a common aspect among New England and Chesapeake colonies.…

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    Slavery in America began in the year of 1619 when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia. It was practiced throughout the American colonies in the seventeen and eighteenth centuries and African American slaves helped build the foundation of the new nation with their labor. David Walker was a man of many words. He was born in Wilmington, North Carolina to a mother who was not a slave and a father who was a slave. He studied classics and was…

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    The First Jamestown Colony

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    Jamestown Virginia was the first successful British colony in the new world this is because of the leaders and determination of the settlers. It took many failed chances from a lot of different leaders. It cost endless amounts of money and lives. The transatlantic area was still widely unknown and there was no way they could prepare for he challenges ahead. It took a lot of help from the local Native Americans however it also would be their conflicts with these Native Americans that made their…

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    George Mason was born on December 11, 1725 in Fairfax County Virginia. He had his mother Ann Stevens Thompson, and his father George Mason the Third. George Mason’s mother Ann Stevens Thompson is an at home mother basically raised her children. George Mason’s father George Mason the third was a politician and a farmer he owned a lot of land. George Mason the third died in a ferry accident on 5 March 1735 on the Potomac River. Sadly when George Mason was only ten years old. From there on he was…

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    ‘’ you don't work, you don't eat’’. They both had many rules and beliefs that were strict. In this essay i will talk about both of the colonies and their similarities and differences. On May 14, 1607, 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company established the very first English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River.Tobacco became Virginia’s first profitable export. Capt. John Smith was one of the people of that voyage. John Smith was born to a farming…

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