... the south tip of Africa to the East to get spices needed to preserve thier meats. The merchants could avoid expensive taxes from the rullers of every country between Eygpt and Europe by traveling in this fashion. Religion also played an important role. The Spanish were pushing hard to convert many of the Natives in America to thier Catholic ... religion, while many settlers in the Northern region of America were moving there for religious freedom. The best example of this was the Pilgrims of Plymoth Colony who were being persecuted ... Carribean that became the foundations of the Brit...

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... to America. When the German immigrants settled the majority of them belonged to the Christan religion. In all, Germans were the largest immigrant group to include sizeable numbers of all three major Western religions (Catholic, Protestant and Jew). In the beginning over 100,000 Germans migrated to the English colonies in North America. Most of them settled in Pennsylvania. While others settled in New ... York, Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. Despite the devotion Germans had to their homeland, German settlers adapted rapidly to the ... ...

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... say that Columbus was the inventor of the American Dream" (Vizenor 526). Although Columbus discover the new world, it was people like John Winthrop and Roger Williams that were integral parts of founding America. Winthrop was a wealthy English lawyer who was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629. He led the first wave of migrants to the new world in ... Columbus's first voyage allowed many of his descriptions of the New World to spur the national ambitions and personal imaginations of the Spanish, ensuring new expeditions and future colonies" (Baym). By Columbus' four...

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... settling of British North America.  "Economic issues, not religion, determined the development of the English colonies in North America." In Virginia, the company realized that for the colony to survive, the people had to stop  searching for gold, grow its own bare necessities, and find a "marketable commodity" (Eric Foner 64). On the other hand,  both Maryland and Massachusetts used the birth of a new colony as ... of Massachusetts Bay/Plymouth religious beliefs/troubles determined the outcome of its' society.   Both economic and religious issues directly influenced the development...

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... extent, that the colonists believed America was self-sufficient enough to exist as independent unit from England. At first, America existed just as any of the other English colonies. England provided financial and military assistance, and in turn America shipped goods that were to be sold in England. This mercantilist system worked out at first, but soon, as the population increased people began ... on British tea. The colonists were infuriated with these acts, shouts of "taxation without representation" became exceedingly popular, and for the first time the colonies united and fought ba...

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... Hartford in 1636. Both men were looked down on by the Puritan society, The Puritans wanted to reform and purify traditional Catholicism. Thus, they turned away from and punished tolerant ideas of religious liberty. Quakers were nearly completely opposite of the Puritans. In 1676 the English Quakers bought proprietary rights to a western part of New Jersey. They developed ith into a haven for the ... Society of Friends, a group that the Puritans rejected. The Quakers were devoted to religious toleration and pacifism. William Penn, an English Quaker, had been imprisoned four times for his...

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... on it. Another reason the British wanted to establish a new colony in North America, was to make a profit. The way they made their profits was by grow crops and trading with other colonies. By settling in North America it would spread their trade routes with more exotic countries. A new crop, which was introduced by the Indians, was tobacco. John Rolfe introduced tobacco ... doing this the English colonist were smoking less weed and more tobacco. By settling in North America the colonists were able to practice their religion freely and spread the word of their religion to others, includ...

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... the Stuart Restoration. Puritanism reached North America with the English settlers who founded Plymouth Colony in 1620. It remained the dominant religious force in New England throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. This was one of the first forms of expansionism in the US, it was an expansion of religion. Another major impact of expansionism in the US was ... the 18th century. Which was again an expansion of religion in the US, it was a general revival of evangelical religion in the American colonies, which reached its peak in the early 1740s. Local revivals had occurred previously, ins...

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... , this movement grew from a trickle of a few hundred English colonists to a flood of millions of newcomers. Most European emigrants left their homelands to escape political oppression, to seek the freedom to practice their religion, or for adventure and opportunities which denied them at home. The King, Charles I, wanted the success and the wealth that the settlers had so he sent troops over ... to basically control everything and make a profit off the businesses. The King also made towns like Jamestown British colonies which were then taxed by England. Fast forward a little bit and the ...

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