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US History concept chart major concepts & themes across US History: Difference between revisions
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=== & push-pull factors === | === & push-pull factors === | ||
* opportunity | '''Push factors''' from England: | ||
* poverty/ lack of land ownership (rents) | |||
* religious persecution | |||
* escape debt or criminality | |||
* lack of economic or social opportunity | |||
* primogeniture | * primogeniture | ||
** 2nd sons didn't inherent titles or property | |||
* limits imposed by British social and economic class system | |||
'''Push factors''' to American colonies | |||
* economic opportunity (trade) | |||
* adventurism | |||
* religious freedom | |||
* land ownership | |||
* start new life | |||
* political opportunity | |||
* merit-based opportunity | |||
=== American colonial perceptions viz Britain === | === American colonial perceptions viz Britain === | ||