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Coming to the New World

Coming to the New World. Motivation for Exploration- 1400s. To find a quick sea route to Asia Trade- spices and silk Money- gold and silver Spread Christianity More land=more power. Reasons to Establish Colonies Overseas. To add to the Wealth and Power of the home country

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Coming to the New World

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  1. Coming to the New World

  2. Motivation for Exploration- 1400s • To find a quick sea route to Asia • Trade- spices and silk • Money- gold and silver • Spread Christianity • More land=more power

  3. Reasons to Establish Colonies Overseas • To add to the Wealth and Power of the home country • To gain Raw Materials • 1500s – gold and silver (Spain) • 1600s – fur pelts (French) • To sell their own manufactured goods, such as cloth, lace, pots, dishes, books, • Thought their home country was overpopulated

  4. Push Factors • Economics: hunger, poverty, homelessness, lack of opportunity • Many people were willing to risk it all for a fresh start in a new place • Religious Intolerance in home country • If a person did not conform to teachings of official state church, they were often persecuted • English Separatists traveled to Netherlands because of persecution in England; later traveled to New World as Pilgrims

  5. Pull Factors • Belief that America was a land of abundance • Open land, food, hunting… • Religious Freedom • Pilgrims travel to America in hopes of religious freedom • The Pilgrims were followed by other non-conformists: Puritans, Quakers, Catholics, Jews, Baptists, and others

  6. Force • Africans kidnapped and forced to come to the New World (in chains) • Portuguese 1st to enslave the Africans (1444) • 1500s – Spanish colonists importing large numbers of Africans to work on sugar plantations in the West Indies • 1619 – a few Africans brought to English Colony of Virginia and sold as servants • Late 1600s – thousands of captive Africans brought into colonies each year and sold into slavery

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