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    Although New England, primarily Massachusetts, and the Chesapeake, primarily Virginia, were both settled largely by people of English origin, by 1700 the regions had evolved into two distinct societies. This difference in development occurred for the following three reasons: the geography, purpose of both colonies, and the priorities. The geography of each region was vastly different. In the New England colonies, the rocky landscape resulted in a short growing season. This contributed to a rise in

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    What changes our lives? What determines what we achieve in our daily lives? Human geography changes the way we act, what we spend most of our days, and what we know, physical geography only changes what we wear and where we go. How we spend most of our days could be based off our government and the kind we have. Depending on the leader of that group or country can really adjust our schedule. Dictatorship is a type of authoritarian government, it is when one person leads a group or country. Kim

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    established the colonies. In 1635, the emigrants sent to Virginia by these joint stock companies were composed primarily of young single men in their twenties who could work on the tobacco farms (Doc C). They were not sent with their families and out of the long list of emigrants, only 11 were women. This shows that the stock companies really didn't care if their colonists established a community and were only concerned with making money. The New England list of emigrants however shows entire families, most

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    of having it be able to “stand up to two thousand miles of hard traveling” and “withstand river crossings and mountain travel”. Wagons, just like cars, might break down in the middle of travel. Carrying extra parts and repair tools was a must for emigrants which added onto the growing list of expenses.Animals were also needed in

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    In Common Sense, by Thomas Paine writes that America cannot recon ciliate with Great Britain. Paine gives many examples in this document of why America cannot reconsolidates with Great Britain. One of them is there is no advantages to being connected to Great Britain; only disadvantages can come out of the connection and the second idea is British government must sooner or later end.      In the first point about the connection with the British, Paine states that America

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    Abstract Different nations have different cultural practices. Even though globalization has to lead to the extinction of numerous cultures, most Americans and Brazilians still practice their traditional cultures. Today most people think that because Brazil is in America, they have the same culture. This is not true since both America and Brazil have numerous differences regarding their culture. Perhaps many people may argue that both the US and Brazil have similar collections of ethnic and racial

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    Syrian Refugee’s Emigrating to America Should Syrian refugees be allowed to seek refuge in the United States of America? This question is in serious debate among many citizen’s and elected officials in the free world (Zaimov, 2016). Terrorism has struck a widespread panic in Americans who fear the teachings of the Islamic religion. The Muslims communities are taught about the Holy War, or also known as Jihad. Their Doctrine uses this Jihad as one of their ways to eventually dominate the world

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    Chesapeake Colonies Dbq

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    As shown in Document B, the list of Emigrants bound for New England was all families. Every settler was part of a family, and those families all had upwards to 10 members. Even the list puts emphasis on the families, stating who the sons, daughters, wives and husbands are. The Emigrant ship shown in Document C, bound for Virginia does not mention any families, all the settlers are above the age of a child, and

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    consequence, where my bread is earned there is my country is the motto of all emigrants”.Though one of de Crevecoeur’s statements about new immigrants are not true based on Rodriguez opinion and views of immigrants. Crevecoeur stated “ “He is an American, who leaving behind him all his ancient prejudices and manners, receives new ones from the mode of life he embraced.” and, “What attachment can a poor European emigrant have for a country where he had nothing”. This quote is saying immigrants give

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    Chesapeake and New England Throughout the 17th century, different geographic economic and social factors made New England and The Chesapeake region. In this century New England had a very strong Identity while The Chesapeake region was mainly scattered all over the place. Slaves, Indentured Servants and poor free men made a very large wealth gap in the chesapeake. New England’s ultra harsh climate made large production of staple crops and disease spreading very difficult. In contrast the hot river

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