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    1960s were a decade of change, and the auto industry was no exception. In the 1960s the automobile industry was shaped by a new generation of baby boomers, the emerging counter culture, the cold war which evoked americans to experiment with new technology, a market aimed towards the people,and the public's growing unrest about safety. The post World War 2 era gave birth to a new generation of baby boomers, who were car obsessed teenagers in the…

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    huge cash crop, English “sea dogs” plundered 34 vessels carrying sugar. Drake raided many Spanish fleets and ports ranging from the West Indies to Spain. Sea dogs helped England have an influence in colonization and with asserting its power in the New World. 11. Jamestown o Jamestown was settled with the help of the joint-stock Virginia Company of London rather than Parliament or the crown. The colony first started out unsuccessful and almost failed due to lack of discipline and leadership and…

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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 the first winter from illness and disease. They were introduced to a Native American named…

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    Even though Jackson and Rutledge’s writing pieces are completely different, they are also similar. They are different by their reason for writing their individual writing pieces and their sentences structure. But, they are also similar because they use tone and descriptive language. Michael Rutledge wrote “Samuel’s Memory” to have people remember the horrors of the Trail of Tears that his great grandson’s endured. “My mother and I are taken by several men to where their horses are and are held…

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    Mayflower Compact Summary

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    Bradford, William. Mayflower Compact(1620). MS, 24 Beacon st, State House Room 341,Boston,MA 02133. This surviving account, signed by the 21 English colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620, is the first written framework of government in what is now the USA. This only surviving account, the compact, was made to prevent hatred and dissent amongst Puritans and those Pilgrims who had landed a few days later. The purpose of the compact was to also create a civil body politic to enforce…

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    Mayflower Compact Essay

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    Compact: A Young Person’s Perspective- Historical, Present-day Societies, and Personal. Historical: The signers of the Mayflower Compact had a variety of motivations in the creation of their founding document. The pilgrims that had come seeking a new home in the new world found themselves outside of the jurisdiction of the Virginia charter, and there were mutterings of mutiny among the voyagers. One of the primary motivations in the writing of the compact was to establish the rule of law and to…

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    did not get to live to see the New World. For those who survived the journey, it seemed as though there was disease and death surrounding them everywhere they went. There were many different ships which took people to the New World, and the settlers formed a total of three colonies. Those who rode on the Mayflower signed a Mayflower Compact, which simply required those who signed to accept whatever form of government was established after landing in America, in the New England…

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    Plymouth Colony Essay

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    The Plymouth Then second permanent English settlement in North America was founded in 1620 by settlers, including a group of religious who later founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the Pilgrims believed that the Church of England could not be reformed. Rather than attempting to purify the church the Pilgrims desired a total separation. Dissenters commonly referred to as the Pilgrims Though theologically very similar to the Puritans The Plymouth Colony met of being separated, but They was…

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    arrive in the New World trickled into the settlement. In 1620, a new settlement would begin in present day Massasschuetts. It was the infamous colony of Plymouth. The colony was founded by the pilgrims, who were fleeing Europe on the grounds of religious persecuetion. So…

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    Jamestown vs. Plymouth Many settlers during the early 1600’s came to the Americas for different reasons. In 1607, a hundred and four men boarded the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery and landed in Virginia and named it Jamestown. Thirteen years later, a hundred and two pilgrims aboard the Mayflower, landed in Massachusetts and named their colony Plymouth. Jamestown and Plymouth came to the New World to start anew and prosper. Each of the colonies stay in the New World was different in many…

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