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Early American Colonies, 2002.
Examines puritan and pilgrim communities in early American colonial history.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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American colonial history is often characterized as the result of English citizens who were fleeing religious persecution and who sought to live independently of the monarchist rule. This essay explores more specifically the communities of early American colonials, the Pilgrims (or Saints) and the Puritans. Together, their religious beliefs and cultural practices contributed towards the events that prompted a war with England for the American colony's independence. This essay considers these two groups as distinct cultures who represent differing traditions to American history and expansion.
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The American Colonies and England, 2007.
This paper describes the relationship between the American colonies and England.
1,448 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper describes the relationship of the American colonies to England prior to the Revolutionary War. The author attempts to do this from both the American perspective and that of the British, showing that the relationship between the colonies and England benefitted both sides. The author believes, however, that the main reason for the breakup that occurred between the American colonies and the Empire was the increase of taxes and contributions to the royal Reserve. Additionally, the author shows how the political thought of the time and various acts of legislation also contributed to the break-up.
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"The Seven Years War represented a trying moment in the history of the relations between the American colonies and the British. Every colony, throughout the war was forced to offer assistance to the fighting troops; consequently, the US did back Britain in its quest for victory against the French but at the same time gave rise to a serious conflict between them. The British genera opinion was that the colonies should, in their turn contribute to the increase in revenue seeing that they benefited from the protection of the empire."
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Unification of the American Colonies, 2004.
Describes the various forces that helped unite the American colonies.
862 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper looks at how British shipping and trade to the American colonies spurred economic growth, which, in turn, fostered feelings of independence among the colonialists and the feeling that they were more and more 'American' and less and less English. The emergence of these nationalistic feelings, as well as several other forces that helped unite the American colonies, are discussed in this paper.
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"During the middle years of the 17th century and well into the late decades of the 18th century, the volume of British shipping to the American colonies steadily increased and made it possible for the citizens in the northern and southern colonies to thrive and prosper as one complete unit. The annual transatlantic crossings tripled from about five hundred during the 1670?s to fifteen hundred by the late 1730?s, and as a consequence reduced insurance costs and freight charges which encouraged the shipment of greater cargoes. More and larger ships, some dedicated to the emigrant trade, also cut in half the price of a passage from Europe to the colonies between 1720 and 1770. In addition, the Atlantic Ocean drew all of the colonies closer together during the first two-thirds of the 18th century, due to being the only path for shipping goods to the mother country."
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Slavery in the North American Colonies, 2008.
Presents the history of slavery brought by the Dutch settlers to their North American colonies.
1,405 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper explains that, when the Dutch settled in their North American colonies, they brought with them slaves to do the manual labor on their farms. These Africans arrived from the Caribbean in 1625 or 1626 as slaves to the Dutch West India Company. The author points out that rules regarding their servitude were not as harsh as they would become in the future under British rule. The paper relates that, as early as 1630, freed slaves settled the swampy predecessor to the Greenwich Village area of New York City, which remained a black neighborhood for almost 200 years. The author describes the revolt of 1712, which was the result of the stricter British rules.
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"The ensuing revolt of 1712 was inevitable: the new British rules were too harsh and too much of a change from the unequal but hopeful and comparatively non-violent status quo previously organized in New Amsterdam. After meeting in a tavern, twenty-
three Africans armed themselves with hatchets, clubs, and guns and set fire to a centrally-located building in New York. When Europeans came to combat the blaze, several of them were killed and wounded. Local militias rounded up twenty-seven slaves
in retribution, six of whom committed suicide under capture."
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Religion in the American Colonies, 2004.
This paper examines the role of religion in the American Colonies.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 23.95
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This paper examines the role of religion and explains its role of in the settlement of the American Colonies. The writer discusses religious persecutions in Europe. The writer also looks at the Puritans concept of religious freedom in the New World.
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American Identity and Colonialism, 2002.
This paper traces the evolution of America's identity using elements of the musical 1776. It concentrates on the Founding Fathers and their drive for freedom and the large role that an American identity played in independence.
960 words (approx. 3.8 pages), 3 sources, $ 34.95
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This paper uses extensive information about colonial America and discusses the issue of an American identity. Analysis of the film 1776 and Thomas Paine?s Common Sense is used to demonstrate the strength of this identity. The thesis is as follows: As the film 1776 clearly demonstrates, during the American Revolution an American identity was stronger than it had ever been.
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"Early American colonies were viewed as very individual and indeed in many instances had much closer ties to England than they did with each other. However, ties with England began to fray due to the poor of the colonies by England. Early examples of this were the Navigation Acts of 1660, which regulated commerce and ensured that ?everything went through England.? From this time, an American identity began to form. As tensions between England and the colonies grew stronger other factors arose to further the development of an American identity. ?Choice? in shopping and material possessions and the ?standardization of consumer behavior? (similar goods being available throughout the colonies ) enhanced unity throughout America. As the film 1776 clearly demonstrates, during the American Revolution an American identity was stronger than it had ever been."
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Treatment of African Americans and Native Americans in Colonial America, 2002.
This paper discusses the treatment of African Americans and Native Americans during Colonial times.
2,265 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 70.95
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This is a paper about the different treatments toward blacks and Native Americans in colonial America by whites. The author looks at the differences and the similarities in the way these two populations were treated.
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"In dealing with "outsiders", White Europeans who controlled the continent held many similar views. These outsiders included the Native Americans and the African Americans. Both peoples were treated in parallel and in opposing ways by the whites in power. The most obvious way that the two groups were treated the same is that they were dealt with in a very ethnocentric way; whites assumed that they were superior to both groups. Both groups were not dealt with in the same way from the onset. Native Americans, who were living in the country long before the whites, were killed, stripped of their land, and mislead as to their future in the new white world. Africans were brought into the country, a large distinction, because whites needed them here. They were at first used as indentured servants, and it was a gradual change that shifted over to slavery. From there on came restrictive legislature, and a view of them as savages. The two groups were both treated differently by whites in terms of how they were oppressed, but the overriding theme in both cases is that the white Europeans saw both as inferior races."
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Hispanic Americans: Colonial to Present, 2001.
An examination of the integration of Hispanic Americans into American society and culture
3,595 words (approx. 14.4 pages), 4 sources, $ 100.95
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This paper takes a look at the immigration, assimilation, integration and multiculturalism of Hispanic Americans. The author describes the difficulty they experience with regard to integration into American society and their contributions to the development of American culture.
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"Hispanic Americans are Americans of Spanish origin or Spanish-speaking descent. The terms "Hispanic" and "Latino" refer to a group of Americans who share common cultural origins and language. However, Hispanic Americans come from diverse nations and backgrounds with distinctive histories and distinctive socio-economic and political experiences (Who are, 1996). Hispanic Americans are the blend of various ethnic groups, including European, African, and American Indian. Three major Hispanic groups in America are Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans."
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The Marginalization of Native Americans and African-Americans, 2004.
Examines how post-colonial American history impacted the emancipation of African-Americans and Native Americans, or Indians.
1,065 words (approx. 4.3 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 37.95
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Before American society become liberated and independent from British rule, two important events became the catalyst for social and political changes that occurred within the American nation: the American Revolution (1775-1783) and the American Civil War (1860). These significant events in American history contributed to the liberation of America as a nation and the independence of marginalized sectors in America, the native American-Indians and African-Americans. This paper discusses the impact of the American Revolution and American Civil War in encouraging/discouraging the emancipation of the American Indians and African-Americans from prejudice and discrimination in the American society. In addition, this paper also focuses on the implications of the emancipation or non-emancipation of these sectors to the future of American society and nation.
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"However, over time, a strong public sentiment began forming as atrocities against the black slaves were exposed to the American nation. Because of strong public sentiment against black American slavery and continuing conflict between the South and North, the American Civil War erupted, and the anti-slavery vs. pro-slavery conflict ended with the issuance of the Emancipation Declaration of 1863 by then US President Abraham Lincoln. Thus, African-Americans, unlike the native American-Indians, were able to achieve their freedom from American rule and colonization, bringing down social prejudice and discrimination of the African-American sector in the American society and nation."
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"American Slavery, American Freedom", 2008.
A review of "American Slavery, American Freedom" by Edmund S. Morgan.
1,444 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 47.95
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The paper describes how Edmund S. Morgan's "American Slavery, American Freedom" examines the political and social impact of slavery in colonial America. The paper explains how Morgan emphasizes the tragic contradiction between freedom and slavery, particularly in the colony of Virginia that produced patriot leaders such as Washington and Jefferson, but also had the most slave owners. The paper further explains Morgan's thesis that this contradiction was caused by prevailing beliefs that racial and gender inequality was a natural condition.
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"American Slavery, American Freedom was written by historian Edmund S. Morgan and published in 2003 by W. W. Norton. The author's examination of slavery in America emphasizes the tragic contradiction between freedom and slavery, and focuses on Virginia, which produced leaders of the American Revolution who were dedicated to freedom and equality, but which also had the most slave owners. In his book, Morgan analyzes this paradox as he strives to understand and explain why such a contradiction existed."
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Changing Roles of American Women - 1600 - 1780, 1999.
A paper which examines the role of women in the American colonies in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
1,760 words (approx. 7.0 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 56.95
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This paper discusses the difficult lives of women in the American colonies, lives which revolved around the basic family unit and entailed laborous tasks to ensure the survival and continuity of the home. The paper shows that as time progressed and the colonies became more civilized, the roles of women changed. Instead of merely surviving, women began to have leisure time on their hands. Women also had time to educate themselves beyond their regular housewifery skills. Socially, women had time to entertain and lead more leisurly lives. The paper follows the changing role of these women through the Revolutionary War when they assumed a number of unfamiliar roles. It also shows how the development of the countryside and infrastructure changed the social life of women. Finally, the paper shows that women of this time had their lives shaped by extraordinary events such as political and economic upheavals, religious conflict, and intellectual transformation. It was during this time that women first started to establish themselves and their rights.
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"The practical and functional roles of women changed during the Revolutionary War. Women had to take up positions that they normally would not have had to before. They had to manage the house while their patriotic husbands were gone. This also opened other doors to women. For Deborah Sampson it meant cross-dressing as a soldier and taking up arms. She was placed into indenture at the age of ten and upon completion entered the army. (Ferguson 183) She was noted to be a woman who wanted to see the world. If not for the war, where would she have ended up, and what path would this creative, energetic and brave woman have taken? Her husband subsequently received a veterans pension for her efforts.(Evans 54)"
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The Lost Colony of Roanoke, 2007.
A look at the impact of disease on the lost American colony of Roanoke.
969 words (approx. 3.9 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 34.95
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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. "
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John Locke's Theory and the American Revolution, 1971.
This paper discusses John Locke's theory of representative government and its applicable to the American colonies and the forming of the American government during the Revolution.
2,025 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 5 sources, $ 71.95
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"Rebellion against the existing authority (Stuart Monarchy) in England, during the late seventeenth century, necessarily opened up avenues of political theory to explain the government's existence (in terms of its origin and purpose), and to suggest possible alternatives of government rule. Of the most prominent enlightened political theorists that appeared on the scene, John Locke captured the idea of the freedom and equality of Men, and theorized their special relation to government in his coherent rational work, Two Treatises on Government. Though his Two Treatises served its purpose, in demanding and justifying the need for revolution (which occurred in 1689, establishing a Constitutional Monarchy), it was not confined to this purpose. It had philosophical aspirations as well as policy (i.e., a ... "
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Women in the New England Colonies, 2002.
A study of black and white women in the pre-revolutionary New England colonies through a literature review.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 44.95
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This paper will discuss the plight of women in the New England colonies and how they lived in the religious ideals that were present in the societal systems of the period. The books that will be studied in tandem with this study will be: "American People: Creating a Nation and a Society" by G. Nash an J.R. Jeffrey and the book Good Wives Image and "Reality in the Lives of Women in Northern New England 1650 - 1750" by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. By analyzing these studies, we can understand how many women upheld the norms of Puritanical life in the early American colonies.
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Changes in Colonial Culture, 2002.
Proposes that changes in American colonial culture were a significant cause of the American Revolution.
1,449 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper suggests that, in addition to the traditionally cited causes of the American Revolution, such as growing taxation, lack of representation and trade restrictions, changes in the colonial culture of America were also a cause of the Revolution. Some of the cultural changes looked at are the growth of religious fundamentalism, increased literacy and the rise of leisure time.
Introduction
The Great Awakening and Religious Change
The Impact of Education
Conclusion
Bibliography
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"When discussing causes of the American Revolution, most historians cite growing taxation, lack of representation in the national government, attempts by the King and Parliament to curb the power of colonial legislatures, and restrictions on trade as some of the primary causes. Often ignored as a cause are the changes in American colonial society that occurred in the decades before the revolution."
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