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| What did mercantilism allow? |
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| It allowed the imperial country to make money by selling manufactured goods to colonies made from resources they bought from colonies at a much lower price. |
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| Explain this picture [image] |
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| The colony is collecting resources and selling it to the homecountry for a low price. The HC makes manufactured goods from those resources and sells them to the colonies. They use some resources and manufactured goods aswell but the excess they dont use or sell to colonies, they sell to other countries. |
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Which one is not a reason british wanted to expand.
The economy
Quality of life
Surviving sickness
Religous freedom |
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Surviving sickness
The last reason was competition |
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| Explain why Britain wanted to expand because of the economy |
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| Both France and Spain succeeded using mercantilism. Britain wanted, like neighboring countries to be rich. |
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| Explain why Britain wanted to expand because of quality of life |
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| Farmland that was available to people was scarce. Britain cities began getting overpopulated and crowded. |
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| Explain why Britain wanted to expand because of the competition |
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| Britain wanted to be more powerful than France and Spain. Since both were expanding their empire. |
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| Explain why Britain wanted to expand because of religious freedom. |
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| America seemed like a good place to people to practice their religions freely. In Britain many people, because of their faith, were treated badly. |
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| Why did King James I give permission to people who were eager to colonize NA? |
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| He knew it would cost alot and he didnt want to have to pay |
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| What was the thirteen colonies goals? |
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| Britain wanted large territories and to be richer than all other countries. |
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| What was the religion in the thirteen colonies? |
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| All faiths (some went for the one reason to practice religions freely) |
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| Newfoundland had a haarsh climate and bad farming. Who claimed it and why would they build a colony there? |
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| John Cabot saw a ton of fish when he was saillingn by newfoundland. Britain was interesting in the abundance of fish and only that. |
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| What happened to the Beothuk? |
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Definition
| When the British came with their fishing rods the Beothuk were scared. They hid and even risked starving if that meant not interacting with the British. When the British left for the winter, the Beothuk came out of hiding. They took their tools and destroyed everything. The relationship got more violent when the British noticed their stuff gone. Many Beothuk were gunned down. Then, the British unintentionaly brought a deasese to NA. Many Beothuk caught it and died. Eventually the whole Beothuk people were gone except for one girl. She was brought back to Britain and she taught them about her culture until she died. |
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| How did the Mi'kmaq feel about the French? |
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Definition
| They were ok with them. The French were just farming and the Mi'kmaq were hunting and fishing so they were interfering with them. |
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| How did the Mi'kmaq feel about the British |
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| They did not like them. British took their prime fishing spot away from them. |
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| How did the British feel about the French |
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| They did not like them. The acadians were using good farm land a Britian was upset about that. |
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| How did the British feel about the Mi'kmaq |
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Definition
| They also did not like them The British government for the colony told everyone who saw a Mi’kmaq to annoy, distress, take, or destroy them because the Mi'maq was harrassing their colony. |
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| How did the French feel about the Mi'kmaq |
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Definition
| They were good with them. The Mi'maq were not farming so they did not bother the French |
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| How did the French feel about the British |
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| There was major conflict. They were worried about their farmers and mad about Britain taking their land. They were the ones who told the Mi'kmaq to harrass the British. |
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