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...explain how competition for control of territory and resources in North America led to conflicts among colonizing powers.
...analyze how the availability of natural resources contributed to the geographic and economic expansion of the United States. Explain how this sometimes resulted in unintended environmental consequences.
...explain the impact government can have on markets by spending, regulating, taxing and creating trade barriers.
....describe the movement of people, products and ideas that resulted in new patterns of settlement and land use and analyze its impact on the political and economic development of the United States.
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Economic reasons behind the European exploration of North America include the pursuit for new trade routes to Asia, the quest for new opportunities and the search for resources (e.g., gold, silver). The Europeans found goods that had a market in Europe (e.g., food, timber, fur, tobacco).
The religious reasons for Europeans coming to North America include escaping religious persecution, creating a religious utopia and converting American Indians to Christianity.
National rivalries spurred the powerful European countries to make land claims and to exploit the resources of the Western Hemisphere.
The British, French, Spanish, Swedes and Dutch struggled with each other to control settlement and colonization of North America. One consequence was a series of wars involving colonial powers, colonists and American Indians (e.g., King William’s War, Queen Anne’s War, King George’s War, the French and Indian War).
Forest resources and the abundance of fish and fur-bearing animals stimulated the growth of industries in the Northeast
The soil and climate of Virginia was conducive for growing tobacco. Although England originally settled Virginia to discover gold and silver and to trade with Indians for fur, the cultivation of tobacco helped make the colony prosper. Likewise, rice became an important crop in South Carolina, although originally it was thought to be an area for growing sugarcane.
Regulations have been used by governments to control markets by limiting the production or exchange of goods (e.g., British trade policy for the colonies, including the Navigation Acts).
Part 1 - New Vocabulary: Economic, Resources, Cash-crops, Capital, Joint-Stock Companies, Monopoly, Columbian Exchange, Northwest Passage, Persecution, Religious Freedom, Charter, Company Colony, Religious Colony, Imports, Exports, Duties, Free Enterprise, , Staple Crops, Indentured Servants, Planters, Puritans, Separatists, Pilgrims, William Bradford, Mayflower Compact, Squanto,
Part 2 - New Vocabulary: Mercantilism, Balance of Trade, King Phillip's War, Queen Anne's War, King George's War, French and Indian War,
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