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    friends (Sir George Cateret & Lord John Berkley) so the land was divided into East and West Jersey. Meanwhile the governor of the colony was also giving land away (to the Puritans who'd settled on Long Island). Berkley & Cateret sold their land to the Quakers who then sold the land to speculators. The colony was finally reunited by in 1702 and became a royal colony. Again you see a real mixture of settlers - Dutch and French Protestants (Huguenots), English, Scots, Irish, etc. and hence a wide…

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    Delaware Research Paper

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    Delaware lies on a small niche of the Eastern American border. Henry Hudson is credited with the discovery of Massachusetts in 1609. Henry Hudson was working for the Dutch East India Company and he discovered the Delaware Bay and River, which allowed easily accessible routes for trade. This made Delaware a desirable stop for traders and merchants. The natives to the state were the Lenape, Algonquian and the Powhatan Indians. The first natives were of the Paleo-Indian culture that lived in caves…

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    between the western hemisphere, africa and europe. Native people strove to maintain their political and cultural autonomy Spanish, French and Dutch are go to North America to attempt to exploit the new world resources and form complex relationships with indigenous people. Native American religion was very often connected to their relationship with nature --animism: the belief in nonhuman things…

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    growth. I shall outline the economic and political factors separately and will explain how those factors defined the growth of Singapore. Economic Factors:  Successful Entrepot: A well protected natural harbor, a link connected the different market of India, China, Japan and Java, contributed a lot to attract lion share of British trade with the region.…

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    American Colonization Dbq

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    adequately answer this question we must first identify the reasons for colonization in each of these regions. To begin, the southern colonies were colonies that were established by the English and included Roanoke, Jamestown, Maryland, Virginia Company, Georgia and the colonies in the Carolinas. Roanoke was the first English colony in the New World, in response to the French founding several colonies in the New World. The purpose of Jamestown was for economic gain. Furthermore, investors had…

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    Little Ice Age Essay

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    slide 7). The key difference between the German and the Dutch were their governments. While they both faced the same weather conditions, Germany’s “political and economic dislocation of war made matters much worse” (Dhavan, lecture April 7, slide 12). That meant no hired mercenaries that would kill civilians, people fleeing which would spread diseases and paranoia, or financial crisis for the Dutch (Dhavan, lecture April 7, slide 12). The Dutch did things a little…

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    world until the end of the 17th century. Countries around the globe imported Arabian beans to supply their thirst for coffee. However, European countries slowly started to sell their own coffee. The Dutch were the first Europeans in the coffee trade. The Arabians could not compete against the low Dutch prices. Although the French had a coffee plant, it didn 't become popular until Gabriel Mathieu de Clieu was able to grow his own coffee plants and sell them extremely…

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    minerals then mended together with a base material. The problem here with traditional roads is the waste of heat and the poor quality; the tar coating tends to let water seep through and over time the road just decomposes itself, forming pits and cracks. India and the Netherlands are the known countries for cultivating plastic wastes and turning it into a reinforcement material in bitumen. Plastic is not identified as a biodegradable material…

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    contains the reasons of immigration and the success of the colonies one established. During the 1600’s, the Netherlands were a very liberal place to inhabit- compared to nations surrounding it. The Dutch empire was welcoming to outcasts that were not welcome in their own country. Even in New Netherland, the Dutch exhibited liberal policies, such as allowing women to manage business and even keep her maiden name once married. A letter from Peter Stuyvesant, also provides powerful insight to some…

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    Henry Hudson's Expedition

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    Muscovy Company, an English firm. He found himself in the islands near Greenland but one good thing that came out of this is he spotted lots of whales so a new hunting area was set up. The next year he went on another expedition for the fabled Northeast Passage. Sadly he only made it to Novaya Zemlya, an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, north of Russia. He couldn’t go any further because of ice and returned to England without accomplishing his goal. Hudson joined the Dutch East India Company as…

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