WHY COME TO AMERICA?

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WHY COME TO AMERICA?

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MOTIVATING FORCES (Pros)

• Practice own RELIGION (Personal)
• Make MONEY (Personal)
• Build an EMPIRE (National) IMPERIALISM
• Imperialism policy or practice by which a
  country increases its power by colonizing/gaining
  control over other areas of the world

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DANGERS (Cons)
-SHIP WRECKS -DISEASE -STARVATION -ATTACKS BY
NATIVES -WILD ANIMALS -FEAR OF THE UNKNOWN
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ENGLISH SETTLERS LAND IN VIRGINIA!
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ROANOKE ISLANDThe Lost Colony

• Founded for economic reasons by the English.
• 1st permanent English settlement

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Journey to Jamestown
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http//www.youtube.com/watch?vvrYpaG17WS4
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JAMESTOWN
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HARD WORKMake someone else do it.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
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SETTLED BY PURITANS
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PLYMOUTH

• Puritans-separatists from the Church of England
  who came to practice own religion freely

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STARTING PLYMOUTH COLONY
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The Mayflower