Answer: To escape religious persecution in England and Middle colonies because of fertile soil .
Explanation: English colonies popped up along the eastern seaboard for a variety of reasons. The New England colonies were founded to escape religious persecution in England. The Middle colonies were also called the “Breadbasket colonies” because of their fertile soil, ideal for farming.
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1. US President William McKinley announced his desire for a policy that would allow countries equal access to trade with China. In effect, there'd be an “open door” to Chinese trade, and one country couldn't close the door to another country.
2. President William Howard Taft and Secretary of State Philander C. Knox followed a foreign policy characterized as “dollar diplomacy.”
3. President Woodrow Wilson's idea that the United States' moral responsibility was to deny recognition to any Latin American government that was viewed as hostile to American interests.
4. President Theodore Roosevelt's assertive approach to Latin America and the Caribbean has often been characterized as the “Big Stick,” and his policy came to be known as the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine.
Explanation:
<span>By merging many of the independent colonies situated in New England into one large colony King James I was able to more tightly control what the colonists were doing. Largely he wished to more easily encourage the colonists to abide by the Navigation Acts, legislation that essentially prohibited the colonists from trading with any non-British entity. Additionally, it allowed him to more easily increase the revenues provided to Britain by the colonists.</span>
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Explanation:
The religious beliefs of people along the Silk Road at the beginning of the 1st century BCE were very different from what they would later become. When China defeated the nomadic Xiongnu confederation and pushed Chinese military control northwest as far as the Tarim Basin (in the 2nd century BCE), Buddhism was known in Central Asia but was not yet widespread in China nor had it reached elsewhere in East Asia. Christianity was still more than a century in the future. Daoism, in the strict sense of that term, connoting an organized religion with an ordained clergy and an established body of doctrine, would not appear in China for another three centuries. Islam would be more than seven centuries in the future.
