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    Contrast Yankeedom, Tidewater, and Appalachia During the colonial times there were three cultures that believed their notions of freedom and liberty was the way to live. The three cultures are Yankeedom, Tidewater, and Appalachia. Each culture had a different view towards religion, government, and freedom. Some cultures believed in religious freedom, and others were punished for believing in certain religions. Some cultures had gentlemen oligarchy to rule over the land and make the laws that they

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    could be wrong yet he believed strictly in religious tolerance. These views are what fueled his passion and made encourage the views of what so many people today believe in, even if they have a certain religion. When Williams was banished from Massachusetts because of his beliefs in 1636, he decided to flee into the wilderness instead of fleeing to another colony where he founded Providence. Every dispute, he faced with the Puritans, he reminded them of all the times they wronged him. The only thing

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    Puritan Pros And Cons

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    The Puritans endured many adversities whilst under the rule of King Charles I: son of King James. King Charles adopted Arminianism; an ideology created by a philosopher named Jacob Arminius. Arminianism taught that anyone could obtain God’s grace; anyone could be saved from the hellfire. King Charles and his father King James saw themselves to be God’s right hand men. They spread their interpreted version of the faith and forced it onto the people of Britain. Anyone who challenged them was presumably

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    Christian nation and purge the church of its sins, not just in England, but in the new colonies as well. They were a minority, and most Puritans, including the ones who later founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony, sought to reform the Church from within. One of the founders and first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, John Winthrop, sets the standard for the establishment by stating, “We shall be that city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us. However while in the Chesapeake, John

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    Europe obtained land in North America, they did not only create vast settlements that traded goods between Europe and the Americas but also organized independent churches that catered to their population. For instance, when the Puritans settled the Massachusetts Bay in 1630, they developed their own government and rules compared to the Quakers who settled Pennsylvania in 1681. Both these colonies had many aspects in common but due to the fact that both settlements had different beliefs, ideals, and contrasting

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    In the United States, the health care system differs state by state. Each state has their own set of laws and regulations that fit their standard of morality. When it comes to health care, each state may differ in healthcare’s cost, access and quality. There are also many things that affect these regulation, such as the states sociodemographic and the populations overall health. In the state of Louisiana, there are great differences in their system compared to the overall country’s population. Louisiana

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    “We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds” This message encompasses the whole ideology of transcendentalism. The transcendentalist were a group of individuals attempting to pave their own path in the world. Without them the progression of women’s rights, anti-slavery laws and various religious movements would slow tremendously. The American history of transcendentalism is often attributed to the struggles of a single man. In early 1831, Boston pastor

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    The Puritan era in New England was inundated with an atmosphere of righteousness and judgment. This culture spurned those who strayed from its religious codes. In his novel The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses multiple symbols to bring a deeper meaning to the society, his characters, and to adultery. One of the motifs used comes as the character Pearl, the daughter of the two adulterers. Pearl has multiple descriptions; physically, she is “a lovely and immortal flower,” yet also “an airy

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    Introduction To appreciate the Revolutionary war one needs to know about People like George Washington, William Pitt, to understand more one needs to know Acts leading up to the war like Boston Tea Party the Declaration of Independence. I am wrote about 3 topics of the revolutionary war but there is many more and they are all at different times. People General and president George Washington lead the Americans to war in American Revolution. Washington was also the commander in the

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    Revolutionary War Dbq

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    Americans are use to having this privilege of control over the local government. The people of the American colonies didn't agree with the new laws being passed against them and protested the illegal taxation. Britians Parliament found that Massachusetts was rebelling and at the center of the protest leading to British troops sent out to take care of the rebellious group. This led to a war a little after this and the American Colonies were

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