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    Early Jamestown Colonies

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    Jamestown, Virginia was the first colony to be founded. All the known British colonies especially those which were located in the South American region were put into two major regions, Chesapeake colonies, which held the famous Maryland as well as Virginia. There were also the southern colonies which included Georgia and the North and South Carolina. Setting up of camp in Maryland was due to the need of seeking a safe haven for the English Catholics who were the subject of unending persecution…

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    The story of the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, which is located on the south coast of Cuba about 97 miles southeast of Havana, it gave Castro a military victory and a permanent symbol of Cuban resistance to America aggression. The plan was a total failure because instead of overthrowing Fidel Castro and his revolution, the plan to overthrow Castro immediately fell apart. Over 100 of the attackers were killed, and more than 1,100 were captured. The plan to overthrow Castro…

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    tough and aggressive guard for the Packers for 10 years in the Iron Man Era when players played both offense and defense and sometimes for the entire 60 minutes of a game. In 1919, while playing for Marquette University, Woodin broke his ankle against South Dakota and continued playing, and he brought that same fighting attitude to the Packers. He had an unusually long career for someone who played in the NFL’s first decade, but he was productive until the end. In fact, Woodin scored the only…

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    created by exiled people to a new world. This is where a little organization of Puritan separatists, later called the Pilgrims, landed in Plymouth 1620, which is late known as New 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.…

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    If I were president at the time of The Bay of Pigs, this is what I would've done. I would've given the exiles more weapons and more protection because the exiles didn't have the equipment to fight the Cuban military. I also would've sent the U.S. military to Cuba to support the exiles because the U.S. retreated after they let the exiles off of he ships which made the U.S. and Kennedy look bad.. The exiles should've had more supplies than what they were given to fight with. Therefore, they needed…

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    Puritan Experiment Essay

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    In order to have a thriving colony, you need to have resources. Winthrop and his followers did not bring enough food to feed all 1,000 settlers, so they had to farm, fish, and hunt (Morgan 50). The land was ideal for farming and raising cattle, and they were on a peninsula, so they could easily fish and catch lobsters. In England, hunting was mainly a recreational activity but in New England, it was necessary for life. Winthrop was skilled at shooting, and now that it was not an indulgence but a…

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    (Doc E). In the Chesapeake, they had two economic use for their fertile land. One is primarily based on agriculture because they had large plantations of tobacco, rice, and indigo. The second reason is mostly for the worse among the people of the south. They were they gold seekers, they ones who did not want to land a helping hand. And with their shortsighted promises, all men became their slaves in the hope of recompenses (Doc…

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    Getting Things Started My state is South Carolina and The reason I picked it was because it is my birth state. South Carolina has many cool things to it like being the golf capital of the world or that the trees cover two-thirds of the land, or even that their most valuable catch is shrimp. South Carolina is filled with interesting facts like being explored by the French, Spanish and English, the first State to leave the Union, and the first battle of the Civil War. South Carolina has many…

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    Massachusetts Bay Colony. They mainly consisted of people from England who were looking for religious freedom. These people were persecuted for their beliefs, so they wanted religious freedom, or at least religious tolerance. The first group of people that tried to live in New England struggled to survive. Native Americans had to help the settlers by teaching them how to grow crops such as corn. Later, in the 1630’s, a larger, more developed group of Puritans landed in the Massachusetts Bay.…

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    I would choose this region mainly because eliminating the south as a place to settle is easy because of how difficult life was there compared to New England. Environmentally, the climate of the New England Colonies were much more cold than middle and south colonies given it was the furthest north. The positive side to the cold climate was the prevention of spreading life-threatening diseases, versus the majority of people in the south died from the airborne diseases. The negative side to cold…

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