Rhode+Island

 Rhode Island is bordered by Massachusetts on the north and on the east. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the south and bordered by Connecticut on the west. Their main geographic features are hills, woodlands, beaches, lagoons, and salt ponds. Their major river is the Sakonnet River. Rhode Island does not have any mountains but there is the Jerimoth Hill. Their major harbor is the Newport harbor. The farming conditions in Rhode Island were poor.The soil was rocky, and the winters were long. The geography forced the colonists to make a colony based on trading due to the bodies of water surrounding it. Their farming conditions are horrible and they must compensate it by relying on trading, building ships, and building harbors.
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 Rhode Island was colonized in 1644; originally the home of the Wampanoags in the northeast and the Narragansetts in the southwest, after Roger Williams (a Separatist minister) came in 1635-1636 and set up Providence, Rhode Island. Anne Hutchinson was another individual that came to Rhode Island in 1638. Roger Willaims originated from London, England and Anne Hutchinson originated from Alford, Lincolnshire, England. Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson came to Rhode Island to escape religious intolerance of Massachusetts Bay. Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts after quarreling with Puritan authorities.
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The colonists of Rhode Island fished and whaled to survive. Their principal form of commerce was shipping, livestock, agriculture, whaling, fishing, slave trade, along with trading with the British Empire.
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English was the spoken language in Rhode Island. The religious affiliation in Rhode Island was Puritans, Quakers, Jews, and Catholics. The women’s role in Rhode Island was to care for the house and children. Anne Hutchinson was a woman in Rhode Island who did not accept Puritan authority. She made her home into a place where people could think for themselves. Members of the Massachusetts government, critics of John Winthrop, chief accuser and judge at Anne Hutchinson’s trial declaring her banished from Rhode Island, and women that were interested in studying the Bible came to gather at her house.
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Rhode Island had a self-governing government, joint- stock, and royal charter. John Clarke, a Newport merchant, secured the royal charter from King Charles II in 1663-1776. Joint stock was organized by corporate colonies in 1644-1663. Rhode Island wasn’t proprietary.
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1. The merchants in Rhode Island traded goods and slaves with the British Empire, Africa, and the Caribbean Islands in the triangle trade. 2. Rhode Island was one of the colonies that the British thought would be beneficial to use the policy of salutary neglect in the early 1700s resulting in the prospering of Rhode Island and an increase in trade with Britain. 3. The Newport’s Golden Age of mercantilism ended after the War of 1812 due to the British closing off the harbor, conflicting with Rhode Island selling more goods to other countries than they bought so that they could gain more bullion. 4. Rhode Island was one of the colonies that were affected by the Great Awakening, where they revived the religious feeling of Puritanism, Quakerism, Judaism, and Catholicism. 5. In Rhode Island cash crop was scarce due to the lack of fertile soil, long winters, and short summers.
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Rhode Island was not involved in the French and Indian War; however they experienced conflicts with Native Americans in the King Philip War in 1675 where they tried to take over the Native Americans’ land. There were more Patriots in Rhode Island than Loyalist and they supported the idea of the revolution.
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">There were no leaders in the Revolution from Rhode Island because the British took over Newport, disabling people from traveling; however they supported the American Revolution. The Battle of Rhode Island in 1776 was the only military action that took place in Rhode Island and they suffered from a huge war debt in the 1780s.They supported the Constitution in May 1790, however they did not accept the new federal constitution. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt;">**Citations:** //Anne Hutchinson//. N.d. //Rightmatter//. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Sept. 2010. <http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.rightsmatter.org/biographies/// //anne_hutchinson.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.rightsmatter.org/biographies/// //anne_hutchinson.html&usg=__LNFmitMjWE5FyrnOPWPIf2ssdHk=&h=269&w=180&sz=19&hl=en&s__// //__tart=0&zoom=1&tbnid=URCOCvJYkjW-dM:&tbnh=138&tbnw=99&prev=/__// //__images%3Fq%3Danne%2Bhutchinson%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1362%26bih%3D561%26gbv%3D2%26tbs__// //__%3Disch:1&itbs=1&iact=hc&vpx=136&vpy=221&dur=4954&hovh=215&hovw=144&tx=93&ty=124&__// //__ei=JkOlTPzqHMOclgfbg_XCCw&oei=JkOlTPzqHMOclgfbg_XCCw&esq=1&page=1&ndsp=27&ved=1t:__// //__429,r:9,s:0>.__//
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The World Almanac of the U.S.A. by Allan Carpenter and Carl Provorse, Copyright © 1998 Michael R. H. Swanson and Stanford E. Demars, "Rhode Island," World Book Online Americas Edition, http://www.worldbookonline.com/wbol/wbPage/na/ar/co/467440, August 15, 2001.