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    NFLPA emphasized that “ the NFL adopted the new policy without the consent, and over the objection, of the NFLPA.” The union fought back at the allegation claim that Article 2, Section 1 of the CBA, “supersedes any conflicting provisions in the Settlement Agreement, the NFL Constitution and Bylaws, the NFL Rules, or any other document affecting terms and conditions of employment of NFL players."The union demanded that the new personal conduct policy was an NFL rule and its does not compile to…

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    England. After ten years, a rich syndicate, known as the Massachusetts Bay Company, sent a much bigger gathering of Puritans to build up another Massachusetts settlement. With the assistance of neighborhood locals, the homesteaders soon got the hang of cultivating, angling and chasing, and Massachusetts flourished. As the Massachusetts settlements extended, they produced new states in New England. Puritans who imagined that Massachusetts was not sufficiently devout, shaped the states of…

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    “Religion made an indelible impression on the New England and northern colonies in the seventeenth century.” The religion that influenced the settlement in the northern American colonies was Puritanism. Puritans believed that the Church of England should abolish its orthodox hierarchy and the traditions and the ceremonies inherited from the Rome, but those who really followed Puritanism knew that Puritanism demanded more from the individual than it did from the church. Puritanism also required…

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    Augustine, in Florida in 1565, which is the oldest established settlement in the United States, but at St. Augustine’s settlement the Africans deserted the settlement to live with the Indians, and these Africans are considered the first to have settled in the United States. The Spanish explored from the Southwestern United States, as far as, the lower Mississippi…

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    The city of St. Louis has had a number of problems throughout the years; however the issues were balanced with prosperity. Nevertheless, there was a calling to fix the issues the city was dealing with and in 1917 the city of St. Louis called upon Harland Bartholomew to help analyze their problems. While the 1947 city plan was created thirty years after Bartholomew’s original plan, a number of the same ideas were being discussed. The 1917 and 1947 plan has a large number of similarities, and a…

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    insatiable need for land and the pace of English settlement; meanwhile, diseases brought from the Old World decimated the Native American population. In March 1622, the Powhatan made a major assault on English settlements in Virginia, killing some 350 to 400 residents (a full one-quarter of the population). Lastly during this time frame, the first Africans to arrive in the New World trickled into the settlement. In 1620, a new settlement would begin in present day Massasschuetts. It…

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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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    In the spring of 1607, 110 men were sent to Jamestown to establish a colony. At the end of the year there was “but fortie in all”. The question is where did all those colonists disappear or when there was a resupply in 1608 totaling 160 men only for 120 to remain. One cause was drought and lack of food supply. Another cause may have been disease and illness that spread through the waste filled water. Yet another cause may have been the tension with the Native American tribes nearby. On their…

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    Colonial Settlement Design Research Data Collection WORKSHEET Region: Northeast Name of Colony: New Hampshire Year Founded: 1638 Founder: Captain John Mason and John Wheelwright 1. Give a brief description of why this colony was founded. John Mason was given a patent for all the land between the merrimack and kennebec rivers. The colony was…

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    Describe each the three long-term effect of colonial settlement in Jamestown. Find a quote from the book that supports your response. Tobacco Huge cash crop, anyone could plant and sell it for profit. “A tobacco rush swept over Virginia, as crops were planted in the streets of Jamestown and even between the numerous graves.”(27) Slave Trade The slave trade system led to a vast population of Africans in the West Indies. “By about around 1700, black slaves outnumbered white settlers in…

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