The fact that the colony of New Jersey had so many different churches, showed that the colonists enjoyed their religious freedom.
Cause<span> of the </span>earthquake<span>. </span>Haiti<span> lies right on the boundary of the Caribbean and North American plates. There was slippage along a conservative plate boundary that runs through </span>Haiti. On 12 January 2010<span>, a magnitude 7 </span>earthquake hit.<span> </span>
The Americans resented their mistreatment (taxation without representation) after the French & Indian War, but they had won and weren't involved in a war in 1775. The Russians were reeling from their 1905 loss to the Japanese and they were suffering from WW1 in 1917.
<span>The americans rebelled against King George III, who was depicted as a tyrant, although he wasn't really all that bad. The Russians rebelled against Czr Nicholas II, who was quite a tyrant. </span>
<span>By July 1776 the Americans wanted independence and self-rule; by November 1917 the Russians wanted a worker-run state and self-rule. </span>
<span>American leaders were mostly wealthy landowners and businessmen; Russian leaders were a middle-class lawyer (Lenin), newspaper writer (Trotsky) and a bank-robber/soldier (Stalin).</span>