<p>sarorah and xgreenmachinex, actually the Know Nothing Party was in response to the Old Immigrants. It rose up in the 1840's and 1850's in response to the Irish and German Immigrants but died down because the slavery issue was bigger. I remember being surprised reading that because I thought it was later but when I did my practice essay on immigrants for the 2001 test I specifically put them in my intro as background for the old immigrants. I'm impressed with all the info you had though, mine didn't include that much mostly because i had only 15 minutes to write it.</p>
<p>xgreenmachinex, no problem, just had to make sure that fact was correct</p>
<p>For #2 since no one has done that yet, I mainly said that Massachusetts was based on small towns, small farms, a communal religion leading to small town meetings and politics based on religion since they had the most power while Virginia was more large farms, elite wealthy planters having the most power in the House of Burgesses (if you didn't mention that, i think you're screwed;)). Overall similarities for coming from england with the Parliament/basic Protestant religion although i mostly just talked about that in my intro so i hope they dont take points from that. There weren't a lot of facts for this, just descriptives of how the different communities lived and how they were different. Mentioned Roger Williams/Anne Hutchinson, Pilgrims/Puritans, the joint stock companies, tobacco, families vs mostly men, religious freedom vs economic gain. Most of my stuff was earlier although the trends stayed in the later periods so I'm not sure how they're grade it. I think its at least a 5, hopefully more. And of course my trademark of no intro b/c of those @#$ time limits.</p>