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History and the Impact of Physical Geography

It was the revenue from the sale of tobacco "that produced the first returns on the investment of the Virginia Company" (Faragher,...

Edmund S. Morgan/American Slavery, American Freedom

to describe the experiences of the early colonizing efforts. This description includes social, political and economic factors, whi...

Tobacco Industry

any number of physical ailments, including halitosis and lockjaw throughout Europe (ASH, 2006; Randall, 1999). Sir Frances Drake ...

“Antz” & Emile Durkheim

labor. Rather than being totally dependent on custom, these societies are held together primarily through mutual obligation betwee...

Northern and Southern Colonies

this fact they often grew on small plots, traded with the Natives in the beginning, and essentially remained in close knit familie...

Colonial America: New England and the Chesapeake

the pressure put on them by the Puritans were generally members of the larger, autonomous tribes, such as the Narragansett, the Wa...

A History of Values and Attitudes in America

et al, 2000). And the settlers brought diseases with them against which the Indians had no defense, wiping them out in large numbe...

Colonialism's Effect on Anthropology

"Day after day, minute to minute, Tutsi by Tutsi: all across Rwanda, they worked" (Gourevitch, 1998; p. 18), the sole purpose of t...

Colonial Women’s Public Role and Legal Status

formal education or technical training, women would be hired. The obvious vocational choices were extensions of their housekeepin...

Price: “Love and Hate in Jamestown”

had no particular skills (Price). Price notes that Wingfield arrived in Virginia accompanied by a number of servants and a haughty...

Colony of Dr. Kafka

the quest for material gain, the colony members can focus on the more important of lifes priorities, such as family, friends and p...

16th Century Americas and Spanish Administration

own ways of dealing with their social organization (Weil, 1991). Despite the relative uniform rule of the Inca Empire these areas...

American Colonies and Mercantilism

general theory of economics in the modern era" (Carson, 2005). Unfortunately, it was "weighted down" by "two assumptions ... whic...

American Colonies and the Impact of Imperial Authority

of enhancing British wealth(Johnson 2001). Therefore, the British Crown had issued an ultimatum, based on this document, that raw ...

Equality and the Birth of the United States

of Virginia going so far to offer slaves of anti-British masters their freedom if theyd desert their masters (Blackburn, 1991). Bu...

The English Civil War and Puritanism and the American Colonies

of Irish counties with English settlers in the hopes that the Irish would adopt the political, social and religion of the English....

A Colonialism Examination

and 10% Asians and 10% other and mixed races. While the majority of the nations have a great deal of black people, Detrocopia is c...

Overview of 'the Gelede Spectacle'

of evildoers and potential evildoers to cultivate iwa rere and a reminder of the role that we have come to this earth to play as e...

Puritan Dilemma of John Winthrop

In six pages this essay discusses John Winthrop's story as presented by Edmund Morgan in a consideration of the Puritan dilemma an...

Increasing Significance of Long Distance Migration

In four pages this paper examines the increases in migrating long distances since the sixteenth century in a consideration of Amer...

Pilgrim Separatists and William Bradford

officials such as bishops and archbishops" (Carroll and Noble, 30). Nor was there just one group of dissenters. The Presbyterians...

Contrast and Comparison of Plymouth and Jamestown Colonies

This paper consists of an eight page contrast and comparison of these two early American colonies in a consideration of their simi...

Colonial America's Rebellion Against the Rule of Great Britain and George III's Role

The rebellion of against British rule by the American colonies is the focus of this paper consisting of eight pages in which the r...

Life and Georgia Colonial Influence of James Oglethorpe

In six pages this paper discusses Georgia colony founder James Oglethorpe in a consideration of his life as a soldier and philanth...

American Colonies and Lives of Slaves

In nine pages this paper considers what slavery was like in the American colonies with North and South differences duly noted alo...

Massachusetts Bay Colony and Puritanism

In five pages this paper examines the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the 17th century and the religious influence exerted by Puritani...

Overview of the Spanish Armada

In five pages this paper examines the Spanish Armada in an overview that includes its defeat and the impact upon the English, Sp...

Causes of the Revolutionary War, 1763-1787

This 5 page paper examines some of the conflicts with Britain that led to the rebellion of the American colonies. The writer also ...

American Colonies, Geography, and Population Diversity

were non-English. Hatvaney (1996) quotes a French-American of the time, Jean de Crevecoeur, who remarked, "What is an American? T...

American History and the Place of Anne Hutchinson

to be worse than eccentric. The early Puritans, as they called themselves, believed that the church should purge itself of any ri...