North American immigration (1 gen 1607 anni – 1 gen 1800 anni)

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With Queen Elizabeth I permission, England began attempting to settle in what is now known as North-Carolina, but they failed. The first successful settlement was in Virginia in 1607 (sir Walter Raleigh).

Reasons - colonizing
These were the three reasons why countries would colonize. Nature of human beings means that countries naturally want to be better than the rest, own more land, plantations, etc. Sense of security, basically creating buffer states between them and their enemies, and morals would be for example the spread of Christianity (in Africa, etc.)

Impact of colonialism
The consequence was economic growth. Colonialism drove economic development in some parts of Europe and retarded it in others. They brought changes to virtually every aspect of the land and its people, from trade and hunting to warfare and personal property. European goods, ideas, and diseases shaped the changing continent. . It also affected the societies that were colonized. (mass murder of natives, slavery..)

Push and pull factors of north american immigrations
Push
 The English civil war
 Highland clearances: forced eviction of the inhabitants of Scotland, sometimes they were evicted to the new world
 Religious persecution: religious persecution drove people to the new world as an escape, they wanted to settle there to practice their faith freely.

Pull
 Cash Crops : A crop produced for its commercial rather than for use by the grower - tobacco, Rice, Cotton, Lumber, Gold, Rum etc. These cash crops were attractions to go to the new world
 Colonialism: make the ‘mother country’ stronger by exploitation of the colony
 Political and religious freedom (is a pull factor, being prosecuted is a push factor that’s why it’s named twice

John White’s paintings also contributed in people wanting to go to the new world, since he showed them with those paintings how beautiful it was.

13 Colonies
The Thirteen Colonies, also known as the Thirteen British Colonies were a group of colonies of Great Britain on the Atlantic coast of America founded by the British conquerors in the 17th and 18th centuries until it declared its independence in 1776 and formed the United States of America (more about that later).
The colonial population grew between 1625 and 1775, sometimes displacing American Indians This population included people subject to a system of slavery.

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