CONCEPT MAP

 

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Incas & Aztecs

Conquistadors

Encomienda System

Columbian Exchange

African Slave Trade

 

Jamestown 1607

Mayflower Compact

Indentured Servant

Puritan New Eng.

Mercantilism

 

Plantation South

Manufact. North

The French & Indian War 1754- 1763

Proclamation of 1763

 

 

 

 
 
                                                                                                                       

Topic: American History and Gov.

 

Colonial Settlement

1500 – 1700

pages 2 – 45 in “The Americans”
 
Better technology and desire for “Gold, Glory, & God” Leads to European conquest of Incas and Aztecs.

 

 

Encomienda system and European diseases, decimates native work force. African slave trade begins.

 

                                                           

European colonists come for economic, political, and economic reasons.

 

 

Colonial development patterns based on geography & economics

Plantation south

Manufacturing North

 

 

Economic success  in the colonies, and salutary neglect by mother countries fosters independence

 

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