Compare And Contrast Sugar And Slave Trade

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The pursuit of economic gain and the spread of religious fervor drove the early settlement in North America. It made a big difference to figure out to what extent economics and religion remained important between 1650 and 1750. Sugar Plantations was the start of the economic gain that was the development that led to an intensification of the Portuguese involvement in the African slave trade. Staple or cash crops were tobacco, sugar, and cotton because they were raised in large numbers in order to be sold for profit. Sugar and Slaves written in 1972 by Richard S. Dunn described the English Life in the Caribbean from over 300 years ago. He researched the sugar production techniques used, the problems of adapting English ways to the tropics and, …show more content…

Their purpose coming to America was to flee, and “purify,” the Anglican Church and develop a colony that would be a model to the world. The Puritan colonies were based on Calvinist doctrine, which was the belief that no actions taken during a person’s life would affect their salvation. There became a difference from the Pilgrims and the Puritans, the Pilgrims were against the Anglican Church and Puritans weren’t. The Pilgrims wanted total separation from the church which is why they fled from England. Separatists were a group of Puritans that advised the removal from the Church of England and wanted the freedom to worship by …show more content…

The purpose was to ensure the loyalty of the colonists in the face of the French territorials and commercial threat. The Half-way Covenant was a turning point in religious fervor that gave partial membership rights to people not yet converted into the Puritan church. With this it caused Puritan children to defy their parents and branch off on their own to figure out their religion. Salem witch trials had a big impact of religious fervor, it included a series of hearings before local judges prosecuted people accused of witchcraft. The courts convicted 29 people, 14 women and 5 men were hanged, and 1 man refusing to enter a plea was crushed to death under heavy stone and 5 more died in

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