Abstract
This paper describes the challenges that John Winthrop faced in establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony as evidenced in the writings of Edmund Morgan.

From the Paper
"John Winthrop faced a number of problems in establishing the Massachusetts Bay Colony. As biographer Edmund S. Morgan notes; "Winthrop kept a journal that recorded the issues that he had to contend with in the Colony. His difficulties are therefore well documented and open to historical examination." The governor of Massachusetts, Winthrop, held a position of power in the government of the colony but his primary concern was that of leading the people and operating the Colony according to the Puritan..."

Tags:John Winthrop, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Edmund Morgan, religion, Puritan

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This research paper on the Colony of Roanoke begins with a look at the colony's founding in 1585 by Sir Walter Raleigh, detailing its purpose as well as the reestablishment of the colony in 1587 and the reasons why the reestablishment failed. The paper maintains that the colonists were unable to build a society or maintain good relations with Indians.

Tags:Roanoke, privateering, Sir, Walter, Raleigh

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The Jamestown colony was founded by the Virginia Company as an entrepreneurial enterprise. It was sponsored by the King of England, in 1606 and predated the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This paper describes the hardships that plagued the early Jamestown settlers, which lead to its abandonment in the early summer of 1610. However, in August of that year, 150 new settlers arrived on a ship from England to help rebuild Jamestown in its original location but under new leadership. The paper concludes that Jamestown strengthened the English presence in the New World, established the tobacco trade and set the tone for the future of America.

From the Paper
"For several years, the colony operated smoothly under the Charter. However, relations between the English settlers and the indigenous Algonquins remained strained. In 1622, Algonquin warriors launched one of their most successful offensives on the Jamestown settlement, killing more than 300 settlers. The attack was led by Opechancanough. A few years later a trading expedition was thwarted by marauding Indians. To retaliate, Captain William Tucker and Dr. John Potts poisoned two hundred Powhattans by pretending to propose a peace toast."

Tags:entrepreneurial, cannibalism, resettlement, pocahontas, tobacco

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This paper provides a review of the relevant and scholarly literature to determine the feasibility of such a Moon colony. It uses realistic budget figures and self-sustaining technologies, followed by a summary of the research and salient findings in the conclusion.

Paper Outline:
Introduction
Review and Discussion
Potential Resources on the Moon
Specific Lunar Colony Requirements
Tables
Conclusion
References

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"One approach for a permanent lunar colony advocates such settlements as being early stages in human colonization of the solar system as well as much of interstellar space; indeed, a permanent colony on the Moon has long featured in science fiction but it is now seriously considered by proponents in the United States, Japan and Russia, who foresee a permanent presence of people there within the next decade or two (Lindberg, 2004)."

Tags:nasa, shuttle, space, station, lunar, prospector

Abstract
The paper examines the similarities between the Puritans' seventeenth-century incursions into New England and the expansions of the nineteenth century. The paper argues that John Winthrop's experiences in reigning in the fanatical elements of his Massachusetts Bay Colony anticipated the state's dilemma in doing the same two centuries later. The paper looks at the similarities between the religious rhetoric of both westward migrations and discusses the state's ability, in both cases, to temper the dangerous emotions of overzealous adventurers.

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"Although John Winthrop's first meeting with the members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony preceded John L. O'Sullivan's coinage of the term "manifest destiny" by two centuries, a clear thread connects the two events. The theme of westward expansion has accompanied U.S. history since England's disgruntled puritans first hatched the idea of a New World utopia, and it would not be an exaggeration to write that it was the Puritans, rather than Andrew Jackson or other nineteenth-century champions of westward expansion, who gave birth to what would later be called "manifest destiny." In fact, there are many striking similarities between the two westward movements--that is, between the Puritans' seventeenth-century incursions into New England and the expansions of the nineteenth century."

Tags:Puritans, expansion, rhetoric, separatism, Kansas

Abstract
An examination of the colony's 17th Centuty establishment, focusing on the dominance of Puritan beliefs, maintenance of daily life and work and the control of dissent.

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"The English Puritans were constrained, derided, and bullied by the advocates of the Church of England, which they saw as the source of England's growing corruption. Their theologians, especially those who emigrated to America, "read about the covenant which God had established with Abraham, and so organized their churches on a covenant among the saints" (the saved), thereby producing "a theology, an ecclesiastical program, and a social philosophy for New England" (Delfs 602). The remarkable success of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was due in large part to the fact that the Puritan settlers, for the most part, agreed on principles that supported a life of hard work dedicated to the service of God. Civil and religious authorities universally understood human endeavor as the ceaseless attempt to live a godly life and saw a set of moral attributes that "have the..."

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This paper discusses how one of the most perplexing historical mysteries of early American history is that of the lost colony of Roanoke. It examines how the initial contact between the settlers and the Roanoke Indians included a biological clash at the microbiological level in the form of disease and how disease weakened and reduced the native population. It also examines how, because of the intellectual and religious interpretations available to the American Indians at the time, the virulence of the diseases acted as a kind of unintentional, but effective weapon of fear for the settlers.

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"When first exposed to the early English colonists in what would become the Southern United States, the native population experienced an almost immediate, precipitous "depopulation" that was mainly due to imported European diseases that the native populace had not been exposed to ever before. Thus, the Roanoke Indians had not built up immunity towards European ailments in a way that the settlers, who had experienced exposure to such microbes all their lives, had been able to form within their bodies. In coastal North Carolina alone, measles, smallpox, and colds caused a death rate of up to a quarter of some of the native villages near the Roanoke colony. "

Tags:indians, settlers

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The paper looks at the economies of Cuba and Barbados in the 16th and 17th centuries to provide a comparison of British and Spanish policies in the Caribbean region. This paper focuses on the economy of these two colonies, particularly as it relates to the trade policies of these colonial powers and the social and economic systems which developed on each island as a result.

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"Spain and Britain were two of the most important colonial powers to own colonies in the Caribbean during the 16th to 18th centuries. Both would own several colonies. This report will compare the economy of two of those colonies, Cuba and Barbados. These two were selected because the two islands both became important sources of agricultural products for their respective colonial powers, both became sources of similar agricultural products and both developed a plantation system, which included the use of African slaves."

Tags:barbados, cuba, mercantilism

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Roanoke Island is situated just off the coast of present day North Carolina and the history of its colonization began with England's increasing desire to lay claim to its share of the New World during the late 1570's. The seriousness of this interest became apparent when, in the same decade, Queen Elizabeth issued charters which actively encouraged the exploration and colonization of new lands. A discussion of the early days of settlement and the interaction between the colonists and Indians. Also, a discussion of the island's history is included as well as an attempt to understand the mystery of Roanoke Island.

From the Paper
\"Roanoke Island, in the late sixteenth century was the scene of the first attempts of the English to establish a colony within America and, although the initial expeditions landed in 1584, it was not until 1587 that the first permanent colony was created. Under instructions from, and with the enthusiastic assistance of, Queen Elizabeth of England, Sir Walter Raleigh dispatched two ships from England on 27th April 1584, both well stocked with men and supplies, with the intention of exploring the North American coast to explore the idea of expanding the English empire across the ocean (Quinn, 1975). This initial wave of colonists landed on the North Carolina coast on 13th July, 1584, and set in motion a series of events which could have come straight out of a historical novel. Unfortunately these events were real and there was to be no happy ending, only a mystery, the answer to which remains as elusive today as it was over four hundred years ago.\\\"

Tags:island, 16th, century, English, America, Walter, Raleigh, queen, colony, carolina

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"In the spiritual, commercial, and political life of the Puritan Colony of Massachusetts from 1630 to 1691 a recurring problem was that of defining the proper relationship of the colony to England and authority there.

This period was one of the most turbulent, domestically, in the more modern history of the government of England. Gone was the relatively firm autocracy of the Tudors, who brought revolution out of earlier chaos. Gone, too, was the skillful hand of a Virgin Queen who held the state together with the guile of her father and grandfather. Not really being born to the throne, they were more concerned with holding its position than perhaps the more rightful owners. The pattern for the new rulers, the Stuarts, was set by James I, (1603-1625), who had waited for the crown while Elizabeth took her time in dying. The early Stuarts ... "