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-=== colonialism & push-pull factors ===
+=== state colonialism ===
+* European countries competed for colonial expansion around the world, largely for economic and political purposes
+** ex. France largely sought economic exploitation in its Canadian colonies
+* by contrast, British colonialism in North America, which started as commercial ventures, explicitly promoted population of the colonies
+click EXPAND for chart of types/ purposes of colonial charters/ establishment
+<div class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
+{| class="wikitable"
+! '''Colony'''
+! '''Established'''
+! '''Charter type'''
+! ''''Purpose'''
+! ''' Notes ''''
+|-
+| Colony of Virginia (Jamestown)
+|| 1607
+|| joint-stock company (Virginia Company which had Royal charter)
+|| entrepreneurial
+||
+||
+|-
+| Plymouth Colony
+|| 1620
+|| independent w/ land patent (allowance) from the Plymouth Company (a Royal joint-stock company)
+|| religious
+|| never had a royal charter; merged into Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1691
+|-
+Massachusetts Bay Colony
+|| 1929
+|| 1st row 3rd cell
+||
+|| merged into Province of Massachusetts Bay
+|-
+| Province of Massachusetts Bay
+|| 1691
+|| Royal colony controlled by British king
+||
+|| re-organized Massachusetts colonies and charters into a single political unit that would become the state of Massachusetts
+|-
+| Connecticut Colony
+|| 1636
+|| religious, political
+|| informally established under self-government
+|| Royal charter as colony 1992
+|-
+| Colony of Rhode Island
+|| 1363
+|| religious, political
+|| informally established under self-government
+|| Royal charter as colony in 1663
+|-
+|}
+</div>
+** white American colonial populations grew rapidly
+=== & push-pull factors ===
 * opportunity
 * primogeniture