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Devin Loh, Jordan Banker, Stephanie Alves, Danny Cancel, and Carlos Ganzalez
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* Manufacture ships and iron * Crops and livestock include * Wheat * corn * Cattle * hogs * Sold surplus of crops to West Indies * Thriving industries include * Grinding wheat * Harvesting fish * Sawing lumber
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* Cities laid out like a grid * Expansion and trade port cities grow * Boston * NYC * Philadelphia * Many people, inadequate public service * Lack of fire wood and clean water * Too much garbage
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* People want to come because… * they are fleeing economic distress * William Penns policy of Religious freedom * Shared Quakers thoughts on opposition to war * Would Establish farms in frontier areas with families * Different groups include… * Dutch NY * Scandinavians Delaware * Jews Newport and Philadelphia * Not all groups always got along * English colonists would try to get along with new groups * Furthering the evolution of a diverse American society
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* Extensive work responsibilities * Few legal rights * Religion and law kept women under husbands rule * Puritan clergy men insisted that wives must obey their husbands * “Wives are part of the house and family and ought to be under a husbands government: they should obey their own husbands”
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* Various scientists begin to wonder about/explore the world * Ventured from Religious beliefs to Science * Ben Franklin- Flew kite in thunderstorm with a key tied to it to prove that lightening is a form of electrical power * Effected political thought in colonies * Colonial leaders conclude that individuals have natural rights that the government must respect
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* Puritan church loses grip on society and begin to prosper * New Massachusetts charter * Freedom of worship * Permits all free men to vote * Preachers persuade colonists to rededicate themselves to god Great Awakening * Jonathan Edwards- Member of clergy who sought to revive the commitment of the original Puritan vision * Natives, Colonists, and Africans gather in new churches * People believe in what they want * Higher interest in education * People question Britain’s authority over their lives
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