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Challenges in the Founding of Plymouth

them and speaking in broken English (Cline). Samost carried an empty quiver and two arrows, one with a tip and without, which is a...

Trial of Anne Hutchinson

he refers t the bible study meetings that Hutchinson has been conducting in her home to be a "thing not tolerable nor comely in th...

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...

U.S. Colonies of the North and South

In one page this paper examines the early U.S. northern and southern colonies in a comparison and contrasting of their similaritie...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Reviewing Closing of the American Mind Closing of the American Mind / Book Review

In The Closing of the American Mind, Allan Bloom decries the lapse of teaching of traditional American values in American universi...

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...

The People Under Colonialism

Colonialism has profound effects, both on the indigenous peoples and upon those who would create colonies. This paper defines term...

The Unforgotten African Slave Trade

difficult to estimate how many Africans they took across the Indian Ocean as slaves. However, it is very likely that the number w...

Virginia and Massachusetts Were Opposites in Colonial America

Indian can come near thereabouts but he is presently seen. ... here is belonging to the town six goats, about fifty hogs and pigs,...

Dispelling the Myth of the American 'Land of Opportunity'

once was very much part of the dwelling where the evidence was found. Would a white man have been given the benefit of the doubt t...

The History of California Native Americans Prior to 1900

of peoples in the area, as settlements were logically more concentrated around water. Members of all groups were particularly dev...

'King Leopold's Ghost' by Adam Hochschild

In this paper consisting of five pages the King's search for a Belgian colony is discussed along with the fear that overtaking Asi...

Colonies of Early America

slaves, it would have been impossible to maintain the plantations, which were heavily labour-intensive. Apart from the fact that t...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“Antz” & Emile Durkheim

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

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...

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...

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...

North American English Colonial Societies

became so dependent on the Indians that they took to raiding them; the Algonquin chief, Powhatan, decided to starve them out, and ...

Popularity of French Children’s Songs in French Colonies

Haiti and the Caribbean Islands may appear to be non-French by skin tone and speech, they are still cultures that are likely more ...

Brazil's Democracy Development

in 1821, but by this time Brazil had seen a change in its perceived status, now seen as a kingdom that was united with Portugal (B...

American Revolution and Family Metaphors

of England. It is not something that seemed fair and of course, the colonists had a restless, adventurous spirit and one that drov...

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,...