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An 8 page research paper that examines the similarities and differences between England and her American colonies in 1750. The writer argues that by 1750, the English speaking colonies of North America, instigated and maintained under the auspices of the British crown, had diverged from many of the English norms of that era. Naturally, the numerous ties to England and English custom, such as the grounding of American jurisprudence in English Common Law, continued to exist and exists to this day. However, there were also distinct differences between the norms of the Old World and the New. Bibliography lists 11 sources (some citations are incomplete).
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the English norms of that era. Naturally, the numerous ties to England and English custom, such as the grounding of American jurisprudence in English Common Law, continued to exist and
exists to this day. However, there were also distinct differences between the norms of the Old World and the New, and the inevitable culmination of these differences made the American
Revolution inevitable. This overview of mid-eighteenth century America endeavors to show the similarities between the colonial life and that of England, but primarily this perspective demonstrates that forces began pushing
societal development away from European norms from the inception of European settlement in the New World. First of all, there was the European perception of the North American natural world.
As the early exploration writings of John Lawson indicate, North American was viewed by Europeans as nature in its most primitive and wild state (Edelson 23; Lawson 3). He wrote
of how each night "endless Numbers of Panthers, Tygers, Wolves and other Beasts of Prey" emerged from the Carolina swamps hunting deer (Edelson 23). However, by the late 1720s, the
"forces of commerce, and luxury had civilized" at least the coastal plain of South Carolina (Edelson 23). Furthermore, while Europeans tended to discount the presence of Native Americans as having
any legitimate claim upon the land, the New World was not uninhabited and European settlers necessarily had to contend with and adapt to the presence of the multiple cultural influences
inherent in the native populations. This naturally had an effect on the evolving culture of the colonies. For example, in "contrast to the occupational specialization and class stratification in
England, the Virginia Indians divided tasks almost exclusively along gender lines" (Taylor 126). The colonists of the seventeenth century New England had "intricate ties to the Nipmucks, the Mohegans,
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