united states history
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United States History. In The Beginning…. In 1492, Columbus Sailed The Ocean Blue…. British French Spanish Scotch-Irish Germans Portuguese Jews Swedes. Dutch Welsh Irish Scots Belgians Swiss. Who Came To The Colonies…. They came from here …. … and landed here. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
United States History
In The Beginning…
In 1492, Columbus Sailed The Ocean Blue…
Who Came To The Colonies…
BritishFrenchSpanishScotch-IrishGermansPortugueseJewsSwedes
DutchWelshIrishScotsBelgiansSwiss
They came from here …
… and landed here.
Why Did People Come Here?
Religious ReasonsPilgrims-Mass.Puritans-Mass.Quakers-Penn.
Economic ReasonsGreater Opportunities
• More Land• GOLD!!
Political ReasonsObjections to established rulesIntolerancePersecution
Why would the “Old Country” allow their citizens to leave Europe and set up colonies in the “New World??”
MERCANTILISMDefinition: an economic policy designed to enhance the power and wealth of the mother countries by taking natural resources and wealth from the new lands.
Give and Take Relationship
The colonists came to America to find their given freedoms.
The Mother Country wanted to take all the resources of the land.
How long can this last?
TENSIONS WILL RISE!!!!
Stay tuned for further details in United States History!
COMING SOON:
An American Revolution
