HST 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Anne Hutchinson, Oligarchy, Sarah Osborne
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Wealth: spain and portugal extracting gold, silver, and farming products from the. Religion: wars between catholics (france, spain, portugal) protestants (england, Netherlands) and they want to convert the native americans. Richard hakluyt: a discourse on western planting 1584. Merchants: new markets and exotic produce to sell in europe. Impoverished laborers: start new life with prospect for upward mobility. Restrictions on what we can/can"t buy and sell. Restrictions include monopolies: colonists could not produce goods already being made in england. Protected the english market and forced colonists to buy all english product. Attacking the spanish treasure ships as they returned to europe. English learned: continuous supplies and support necessary to keep a colony going. Operate on the principle of shared risk (get everyone to invest, can"t go bankrupt if you fail) get very rich. Government granted a charter to a j. s. c. 1: incorporation: artificial person at law which can sue and be sued.
