HST 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Atlantic Slave Trade, Sugarcane, Gold Bar
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Spain was given majority of north and south america to spread catholicism. English disagreed with pope and decided to settle anywhere that spain hasn"t settled yet. Main goal of english: mercantilism- the mother country uses its colonies to produce raw materials that the mother country cant produce. Mother country sells finished products to the colonies and profits off of them. The mother country can tax the colonies. Mother country sends unwanted people to the colonies. English settlers in jamestown, va find tobacco to grow and sell it. England passes navigation acts to channel more of these cash crops to england. Can only ship crops to england in english ships. New england contains religious groups that didn"t like english church. Puritans wanted to purify the england church and be less like catholicism. Separatists wanted to separate completely from church due to similarities to. 1629 got on boat to go to chesapeake but were blown to massachusetts catholicism.