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| Reasons for exploration and colonization in the new world |
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| Jamestown and mass Bay Colonies |
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Jamestown, Virginia was a colony that was mainly made in the interest of making money. They fought with the Powhatan Confederacy at first, but eventually sided with them.
Mass Bay was originally created for religious freedom, but actually had strict Puritan theocratic ideals. |
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| Christopher Columbus sailed in 1492 and discovered the new world under Spain's flag. |
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| The Columbian Exchange was a dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations (including slaves), communicable disease, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres (Old World and New World). |
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| Squanto was a Native American who was kidnapped to be a servant in Europe. He picked up some English there and when he was brought back to the New World he served as a translator in Mass Bay. |
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