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William Penn was a Quaker from England who thought that religion didn't need an established church, but is best described as a personal relationship with God. He had an idea for a society where that would be acceptable. When Penn's father died, he inherited a large
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New York used to belong to the Dutch. No, I didn't lose my mind just now, the Dutch established New York way back in 1624, but back then, it was called New Amsterdam, and the surrounding area was called New Holland. The English, seeing the success of the
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Contrary to popular belief, the Plymouth settlers didn't invite the Indians over for a Thanksgiving Feast. Neither did they even call the feast they had “Thanksgiving”. So, what really happened? After their first successful harvest, the settlers decided to make a feast for themselves to celebrate the fact
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The Plymouth Colony was founded in 1620 by Separatist colonists fleeing from England. The Separatists were a group of people who left England because they felt that the Church of England was departing from the Scripture. They wanted to found a church that exactly followed the New Testament. A good
American History
Nathaniel Bacon was a settler who came to Virginia in 1674. He became a farmer but was not satisfied by the way that the governor, William Berkley, ran Jamestown. Jamestown was at this point one of the world's largest exporters of tobacco, and this continuous sale of the
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In the late 16th to early 17th centuries, England was simply chock-full of jobless people, and the population was growing rapidly. One way to solve this was to get land overseas to free up space. King James I granted a charter to colonize Virginia, a land discovered and named by
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Many people wanted to go to the New World. Among these people were the English, who didn't want to be outpaced by their rivals, Spain and especially France in getting land in the New World. I mean, they had been fighting each other for hundreds of years! Sir
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The Spanish went to North America with a mind to conquer (oh, and also to steal gold). There were many Spanish attempts to take land, whether through combat, converting the natives, or through using sickness to their advantage. Spain used conquistadors, which were professional soldiers to fight the natives in
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The Columbian Exchange started when Columbus got to the New World. He brought various items with him from Europe to exchange with the Native Americans. Because of this, things from the Old World were brought to the New World and vice versa. Many things were exchanged during this time, like
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Columbus was the second European to make it to the New World (Lief Erikson was the first), and the first to establish a permanent settlement there. However, anyone undertaking such a journey would have had to have excellent motives for going. Columbus was no exception. He had at least two
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The American Revolution (1775-1783) was the effort of some British colonists to start their independent government in America (and get rid of taxes). Many things caused the American Revolution, but these are some main ones. Twelve years before the American Revolution, Britain and France fought a war that was called
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Amerigo Vespucci was a banker, merchant, steward, ship business owner, and, most importantly, an explorer. Amerigo was born in Italy in 1454 and died in Seville in 1512. He was probably in Spain when Christopher Columbus came back from his first journey to the New World and talked to the