colonial notes
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Colonial Notes
Miss BucellaColonial Unit
What was in America?
• Opportunity• Mobility• Freedom• Liberty
Why be a colonist?• A new place to
live• New jobs• A place to be free• New opportunities
What were they leaving behind in Europe?
• Hard times• Rigidity• Restraint• Persecution
Motives…• The Europeans had good motives
for leaving Europe.
• What is a motive?– A reason for doing something
Persecution…• Many Europeans left because of
persecution
• What is persecution?– Mistreatment of a group based on
something that makes them different than most others (race, religion, gender…)
Three Countries…Three New Settlements
• France• Spain• England
New Spain• The Spanish settled in the
Southwest of the United States, Central America, and the Caribbean Islands
• MOTIVE - Wanted to get gold, slaves for plantations, and sugar plantations
New Spain, Cont.• King of Spain was in
charge of Spanish lands
• Conquistadors (Spanish soldiers) and missionaries were the main groups that came to settle America
New France• The French settled in all of Canada,
near the St. Lawrence River, around the Great Lakes, and west of the Mississippi.
• The capitol was Quebec in Canada.
New France, Cont.• MOTIVE - Main source of money
was through the fur trade
• Traders, trappers, and missionaries were the main groups that came to settle America
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