Early settlement patterns For the most part economic opportunity for growth was the common motive for all the settlers in the new world. The French‚ Spanish‚ English and Dutch all came for the same reasons‚ they just all handled it in different ways. Some handled it decently and others handled it horribly‚ at least looking at it from a Native Americans perspective that is. They all tried to make the ’new world’ environment seem like old ones‚ which clearly it wasn’t and in my opinion none of which
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Chapter 1: New World Beginnings Vocabulary 1. Marco Polo: Marco Polo was an Italian explorer who spent several years in China. When he returned in 1295‚ there became a sudden interest in finding a quicker route to Asia. Polo‚ along with father Niccolo and his uncle Maffeo‚ was among the first westerners to travel the Silk Road. 2. Francisco Pizarro: Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who conquered the Incas located in Peru‚ in 1532. He claimed land from Panama to Peru for
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worn by people in the Plains Culture area. There were two language groups of Indians in New England at this time. The Iroquois were neighbors to the Algonkian-speaking people. Leaders of the Algonquin and Iroquois people were called "sachems" (SAY chems). The details of their democratic system were so impressive that about 150 years later Benjamin Franklin invited the Iroquois to Albany‚ New York‚ to explain their system to a delegation who then developed the
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APUSH American Pageant: Edition 13 Chapter 1 Notes Founding the New Nation The people who settled in America didn’t want to found a new nation. They were Europeans who continued to view themselves as Europeans‚ and they regarded America as the “western rim of a transatlantic European world”. The settlers who came to America were much alike. They spoke English and wanted an agricultural society. They grew to cherish the ideals like individual liberty‚ self-government‚ religious tolerance‚ and
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Social African slavery in the American colonies first began in the 1670’s and 1680’s‚ particularly in the Chesapeake region. However‚ it wasn’t until the 1700’s that slavery became a full blown business. Events causing the need for slaves were: the lack of English settlers willing to become indentured servants‚ the ability of prospective immigrants to migrate somewhere else in the United States‚ and the lack of open land which turned away potential settlers. The need of the Chesapeake tobacco farmers
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British colonies. This meeting was called the Albany Congress because they all met in Albany in the spring of 1754. The meeting had two focal points. The first was to ally with the Iroquois. Before this the Iroquois had a better relationship with the French. This was until the 1740s. During Albany Congress the Iroquois Indians were bribed with supplies and weapons to ally with the colonies. The other point of this meeting was the Albany Plan of Union. It called for a new government‚ a person who had
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I. Changes Leading to Exploration A. Expulsion of Moors in Spain and reunification of the country under Catholic rulers Isabella and Ferdinand caused an age of exploration and expansion. B. After German Monk Martin Luther posted his 95 theses against church abuses‚ there was a powerful movement away from the Catholic Church called the Protestant Reformation‚ causing the Roman Catholic countries to secure their power in the world by converting
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Chelsey Lopez Apush Colonial Era Test Topics: Chapter 1 -7 Causes of Expansion Christian Crusades: control over Holy Land from Muslims‚ exotic delight from asia (silk‚ sugar) Marco Polo: venetian merchant traveler‚ introduced Europeans to Central Asia and China Improvement in navigation tech. Primogeniture: the legal principal that the firstborn to inherit entire estate (property & land) Development of Joint Stock companies: economic arrangement by which number of investors poo their
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“Native Americans are generally acknowledged as the New World’s first and fore most environmentalist Native American religion stress that people are coequal with nature‚ descendants of "Grand mother earth." How then‚ could some of them have depleted wildlife for the fur trade? “ Asks Jeanne Kaye. Most Native American tribes have long had an intimate relationship with their surroundings. Before direct contact with Europeans‚ most tribes lived in small villages. They were mindful of their measures
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1698 - exploration led by Samuel de Champlain o Settlements by Quebec along the St. Lawrence River · Befriended many tribes o Montagnais + Hurons = tribes that allied with French · Alliances with tribes in the St. Lawrence led to battles with the Iroquois o France played an effective role in keeping peace to ensure the security of New France · Jesuits- missionaries that forced Christianity down the Indian’s throats -Development of New France · King Louis XIV disbanded the Company of New France and
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