Coming to the New World

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Coming to the New World
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Motivation for Exploration- 1400s

• To find a quick sea route to Asia
• Trade- spices and silk
• Money- gold and silver
• Spread Christianity
• More landmore power

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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

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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

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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

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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