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    that it planned to achieve. These colonies were separated into different regions among America. Two specific regions that many historians tend to articulate about. Consisting of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire, the New England region presents many intriguing ways of achieving their goals. Likewise, the Chesapeake Bay, which contain Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and part of South Carolina, also have their own ways of achieving different goals. While many focus on the

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    David Zhou 9/3/15 Mrs. Ream 1G The Kings Who Made England The Plantagenets were the people who ruled over England for more than 200 years. This powerful dynasty ruled from 1154 to 1399, and it was the longest reigning English dynasty. This period of time was part of the middle ages, the age of chivalry. However, nearing the end of Plantagenet rule, society began to move away from the feudalism seen in the earlier middle ages, and became more secular. The eight kings during this time made countless

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    New england greatly benefited from urbanization, due to its location. It was near the ocean; giving way to shipping and trading industries booming with work being generous due to its great supply of timber for shipbuilding. New england was a center for commerce, fisheries, and shipbuilding. The area rapidly grew as well from favorable weather conditions for lowering disease. Since it had such accessibility granted by the sea ports, this helped to increase the population of the area greatly from immigrants

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    worship. The Puritans left England out of a need to purify the church and their own lives. They followed the writings of John Calvin to America and formed The Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the original settlements, settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England, under the guidance of Governor John Winthrop. In 1929, The Massachusetts Bay Colony received a charter from King Charles I allowing them to colonize in New England between the Charles

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    Education System in England

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    The education system in England [pic] Pre-school education The pre-school sector includes a patchwork quilt of places provided by state, voluntary and private nurseries, childminders and playgroups - available to children between the ages of two and five. At the end of 2000 there were 937,000 pre-school places available - 264,000 in day nurseries, 353,000 in playgroups and other settings and 320,000 with childminders. The government has promised to improve the quality of education available for

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    After the formation of New England, the Northern and Middle colonies, England retained control over them. As such England controlled development, religion and the government, just to mention a few. However, as the colonies developed, they began to covet their individual independence, and this was seen as a threat by English rulers. The most significant change that these American colonies had to confront was to create a society that was unique and different from that in England. Upon this background,

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    rapidly upon their discovery in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. England seized territory along the eastern coast of North America, land soon to be referred to as the New England and Chesapeake colonies. Settlers to the New England and Chesapeake colonies were of the same country but motivated to travel to North America for vastly different social and economic reasons. Settlers in the newly founded New England and Chesapeake colonies had a participatory democracy, but settlers in the Chesapeake

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    New England and Southern Colonies developed differently for several reasons. A few of the reasons why the regions were so diverse include; religion, climate, and slavery. The religion caused the colonies to conversed use to different beliefs. Climate made the region's live opposite lifestyles. Lastly, slavery made the colonies unique from each other because it showed the difference in job opportunities and amount of labor. Religion makes New England and Southern Colonies very distinctive

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    Until the 1800s, China and England were equal in almost all respects and faced the same labor and land constraints. These two emerging powers split as Europe’s economy took off in an industrial breakthrough (Pomeranz, 2000, 12). China, however, was incapable of the rapid economic development of the Industrial Revolution. This poses the question: Why did England experience an industrial revolution? Drawing from Pomeranz, I argue that Europe was able to overcome the labor and land constraints necessary

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    The New England, and the Chesapeake region were settled by englishmen of the same ethnicity, by the 1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct societies. The different characteristic among the colonies developed due to religion, economy, and motives for colonial expansion. The Chesapeake colonies was Pennsylvania, Virginia, New Jerseys, and Maryland. Jamestown, was the first colonie in the Chesapeake, When they first settled their first thought was to find gold as stated in Document 6 until

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