US History timeline & concept chart: 16th-18th centuries (to 1754) British-American colonies: Difference between revisions

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 * 1530-1680: 200,000 immigrants arrived to the colonies
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-'''Push / Pull factors'''
+'''Migration Push / Pull factors'''
 * conditions that "pushed" British emigration
 * conditions that "pulled" colonial immigration<br><br>
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 ** John Winthrop
 ** Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
-* Push/Pull factors for British settlement in North America
+*
 {| class="wikitable"
-| '''Push factors'''
+|+Push/Pull factors for British settlement in North America
+|'''Push factors'''
 * population growth in England
-* religious & political persecution
+* land use focus in England went from rents (collecting rent) to sheep herding for wool, which displaced tenents
+* religious & political persecution
+* English Civil War
 * primogeniture (1st born inherits), so 2nd+ sons seeking opportunity
 * political advantage
 * corporate organization (formal structures for exploration & migration)
 * criminality
-|| '''Pull factors'''
+||'''Pull factors'''
 * economic opportunity
 * adventurism
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 * economic opportunity
 * "new start"
 * demand for labor
 * slavery
 |-
+|}
+{| class="wikitable"
+|+Timeline of Colonial Migration
+|Period
+|Pattern/ Type
+|Notes
+|-
+!1609-1620s
+!Initial settlement
+!Virginia & Plymouth colonies
+|-
+|1630-1642
+|
+| - 16,000 migrants arrive to Massachusetts Bay colony
+- inland migration as settlers expand across New England
+|-
+|1634
+|Catholic migrants to Maryland
+|about 200 settlers, mostly Catholic settled in Maryland--
+|-
+|1635-38
+|inland migration to Connecticut and Rhode Island
+| - Roger Williams creates Rhode Island (1636)
+- Ann Hutchinson & associates move to Rhode Island (1638)
+|-
+|1665
+|'''colonial population estimates:'''
+| - total population estimated at 75,000
+|-
+|
+|
+|
+|-
+|
+|
+|
+|-
+|1680-1776
+|Scottish-Irish, German migrants
+| - push cause: British wars/ occupation of Scotland & Ireland
+- settlement to Piedmont region (Eastern slope of Appalachians)
+- Chesapeake and Atlantic coast settlement in "tidewaters" of Maryland, Virginia and the Carolinas
+|-
+|1681
+|WIlliam Penn granted land by Charles II
+| - names it Pennsylvania
+- Quaker refuge
+- settlers include Germans
+|-
+|early 1700s
+|Mennonite settlements in Pennyslvania
+|mostly Swiss and German religious dissenters
+|-
+|1700
+|'''colonial population estimates:'''
+| - 275,000 in all colonies
+- 7,000 in Boston
+- 5,000 in New York City
+-
+|-
+|1718
+|French establish New Orleans
+|receives migration from Canada and France
+|-
+|1725
+|'''black slave population'''
+| - starting w/ first importation of African slaves in 1619 (about 20) to Jamestown
+- by 1725 black slave population estimated at 75,000
+|-
+|
+|
+|
+|-
+|1760
+|'''colonial population estimate:'''
+| - total population est. at 1,600,000
+- estimated 350,000 white migrants were indentured servants
+|-
+|1790
+|loyalist emigration from American colonies
+|the 1790 census showed emigration of
+- 46,000 went to Canada
+- 10,000 who returned to England
+- 6,000 who went to the Caribbean (including Bahamas)
+|-
+|
+|
+|
+|-
+| colspan="3" |Sources:
+* [https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/British_Colonial_America_Migration_Timeline_1607_to_1783_(National_Institute) British Colonial America Migration Timeline 1607 to 1783 (National Institute) • FamilySearch]
+*
 |}
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