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    Before, they were troubled with hunger, disease, and environmental problems. The Pilgrims were dissidents from the Church of England and established the Puritan. The Pilgrims established a self-governing agreement on their own, which was called the "Mayflower Compact." When the Pilgrims' arrived nearly wiped out the New England Indians. The good relationship with the Indians ended in 1636 when the Massachusetts Bay Puritans declared war on the Pequot Tribe and Plymouth was dragged into the…

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    Smith was an English adventurer and soldier, he was also one of the founders of Jamestown. Plymouth was also an English colony and this was located in Massachusetts. William Bradford was an English Puritan. He migrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower. WIlliam Bradford later became the governor of the Plymouth Colony. Jamestown was founded by John Smith and one of the things he force was if you didn’t work, you didn’t get fed. All he cared about was making money and get rich. He did…

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    Despite having no power, army, or plan, the British colonies’ took their ideas and morals of freedom and just government onto the battlefield against the most powerful country, in which would transpire the most significant conflict of American history and cement the very foundation of American independence. The Revolutionary War was an armed clash that permanently terminated the political ties between the infuriated American colonies of North America and their homeland of Great Britain.…

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    that they’ll have to move from the originally planned spot due to a bad storm, and that they’ll be making their own rules and laws for the most part. Later, Town Meetings would occur like in a democracy, and they even had elected legislatures. The Mayflower and Plymouth Colony cites itself that “Plymouth colony began to lay the foundation for democracy in the American Colonies”. Considering a Democracy is what the founding fathers and the USA today find to be the ideal government speaks volumes…

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    characteristics: Narrative Traditions, Opportunity for Freedom, Government and Religion Together, and Basic Style of Writing. The time period was from 1492 to 1800 and some of the main historical events that took place during that time were: The Mayflower Compact,” The mayflower compact, composed and signed while the puritans were…

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    Over the years, several people have learned and been taught that Christopher Columbus was the first person to find America. However, America was found by several different people before Christopher Columbus came to what is now known to be called the United States of America. For example, Vikings, Aztecs, and Cherokee Indians were a few of the people that came before Columbus and lived in America. After Christopher Columbus, who was exploring for Spain, told who he was working for what he had…

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    18. Analyze how the concept of salutary neglect created a situation that allowed British Colonists to develop their own governments and discuss how those governments functioned. Confine your answer to 1607 to 1754. Amisa Jiwani Colonial America started to evolve in the years from 1607 to 1754. British Colonists followed and adapted more to policies, such as salutary neglect. In the years between 1607 and 1754, the use of salutary neglect, a British Policy that that prevented the use of…

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    Jamestown and the Plymouth had many differences but also had some things in common. Like [John smith] said ‘’ 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…

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    In 1620 around 100 English men and women boarded the Mayflower. This boat landed on the shores of Cape Cod in Massachusetts and they anchored in Plymouth Rock. More than half of the settlers died but the ones who survived made peace treaties with the Native Americans and built a large economy. The settlers died…

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    Traveling aboard the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, 104 men landed in Virginia in 1607 at a place named Jamestown. This was the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Thirteen years later, 102 settlers aboard the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts at a place they named Plymouth. With these two colonies, English settlement in North America was born. Born in 1580 in Willoughby, England, Smith left home at age 16 after his father died. He joined volunteers in France who were…

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