Anybody here......

[E20]

Know anything about US history that could probably help me.....

[scott]

It will either be Bush or Clinton's fault.

[E20]

Explain how conflict with religous dissenters, among other forces led to the expansion of New England.

The question takes place at 17th century colonization of North America by England, Dealing with Puritans and all that other stuff etc.

[scott]

Wow, I was just ing around... but yeah - like I said... it was either Bush or Clinton's fault. Depends on who you ask.

[whottt]

North America was colonized by Religious Right Wingers and Capitalists...different religious movements for different colonies and some were for purely financial reasons. As it is today...different religious movements don't like each other...so if new colonists to town didn't fit with the norm in they'd be forced out of town and go start their own.

[SWC Bonfire]

Yeah, basically England sent them here to get them as far away from Britain as possible while contributing some trade and use from their newly aquired land in North America. Once here, they continued to squabble amongst each other and rather than settle their philosophical/political/economic differences, they put distance between themselves and lived as they pleased.

[Extra Stout]

Explain how conflict with religous dissenters, among other forces led to the expansion of New England.

The question takes place at 17th century colonization of North America by England, Dealing with Puritans and all that other stuff etc.

In England, dissenters from the Church of England were oppressed.

So religious dissenters left to the American colonies so that they could practice their faith freely and oppress other religious dissenters.

Then those religious dissenters would leave and form their own colony, practice their faith freely, and oppress others. Every colony was its own little theocratic despotic state. According to Pat Robertson, this was the high point of American civilization and we've been in moral decline ever since.

This cycle repeated for a while. Then you had the Quakers down in Pennsylvania who didn't feel like oppressing anybody because they were too busy growing oats to make oatmeal. Also, they called themselves "Friends" rather than "Quakers" and tried to be friendly. (Philadelphia didn't become the City of Hateful Self-Loathing until the Italians moved in, they developed an inferiority complex against New York, and the Phillies choked in '64.) The Friends hung out in coffee shops and made small talk with one another about life and love. This put a huge guilt trip on the Puritans, who changed their name to Congregationalist and stopped accusing women of being witches just because they could swim.

Also, the Catholics started moving into Maryland, so the New Englanders figured, aw screw it, it's a lost cause.

[Dos]

and whenever someone died of smallpox the colonists would take their blanket and make it a gift to the local indian tribe.

the welfare state at it's best...

[SWC Bonfire]

and whenever someone died of smallpox the colonists would take their blanket and make it a gift to the local indian tribe

Elpimpo is trying to lock up the Native American vote in his run for assistant county commissioner.

[Dos]

Elpimpo is trying to lock up the Native American vote in his run for assistant county commissioner

what all six of them!

[Nbadan]

In England, dissenters from the Church of England were oppressed.

So religious dissenters left to the American colonies so that they could practice their faith freely and oppress other religious dissenters.

Then those religious dissenters would leave and form their own colony, practice their faith freely, and oppress others. Every colony was its own little theocratic despotic state. According to Pat Robertson, this was the high point of American civilization and we've been in moral decline ever since.

This cycle repeated for a while. Then you had the Quakers down in Pennsylvania who didn't feel like oppressing anybody because they were too busy growing oats to make oatmeal. Also, they called themselves "Friends" rather than "Quakers" and tried to be friendly. (Philadelphia didn't become the City of Hateful Self-Loathing until the Italians moved in, they developed an inferiority complex against New York, and the Phillies choked in '64.) The Friends hung out in coffee shops and made small talk with one another about life and love. This put a huge guilt trip on the Puritans, who changed their name to Congregationalist and stopped accusing women of being witches just because they could swim.

Also, the Catholics started moving into Maryland, so the New Englanders figured, aw screw it, it's a lost cause.

Classic!