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US History timeline & concept chart: 16th-18th centuries (to 1754) British-American colonies: Difference between revisions
US History timeline & concept chart: 16th-18th centuries (to 1754) British-American colonies (view source)
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'''Push / Pull factors''' | |||
'''Migration Push / Pull factors''' | |||
* conditions that "pushed" British emigration | * conditions that "pushed" British emigration | ||
* conditions that "pulled" colonial immigration<br><br> | * conditions that "pulled" colonial immigration<br><br> | ||
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** John Winthrop | ** John Winthrop | ||
** Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | ** 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 | * 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 | * primogeniture (1st born inherits), so 2nd+ sons seeking opportunity | ||
* political advantage | * political advantage | ||
* corporate organization (formal structures for exploration & migration) | * corporate organization (formal structures for exploration & migration) | ||
* criminality | * criminality | ||
|| '''Pull factors''' | ||'''Pull factors''' | ||
* economic opportunity | * economic opportunity | ||
* adventurism | * adventurism | ||
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* economic opportunity | * economic opportunity | ||
* "new start" | * "new start" | ||
* demand for labor | * demand for labor | ||
* slavery | * slavery | ||
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{| class="wikitable" | |||
|+Timeline of Colonial Migration | |||
|Period | |||
|Pattern/ Type | |||
|Notes | |||
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!1609-1620s | |||
!Initial settlement | |||
!Virginia & Plymouth colonies | |||
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|1630-1642 | |||
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| - 16,000 migrants arrive to Massachusetts Bay colony | |||
- inland migration as settlers expand across New England | |||
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|1634 | |||
|Catholic migrants to Maryland | |||
|about 200 settlers, mostly Catholic settled in Maryland-- | |||
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|1635-38 | |||
|inland migration to Connecticut and Rhode Island | |||
| - Roger Williams creates Rhode Island (1636) | |||
- Ann Hutchinson & associates move to Rhode Island (1638) | |||
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|1665 | |||
|'''colonial population estimates:''' | |||
| - total population estimated at 75,000 | |||
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|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 | |||
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|1681 | |||
|WIlliam Penn granted land by Charles II | |||
| - names it Pennsylvania | |||
- Quaker refuge | |||
- settlers include Germans | |||
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|early 1700s | |||
|Mennonite settlements in Pennyslvania | |||
|mostly Swiss and German religious dissenters | |||
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|1700 | |||
|'''colonial population estimates:''' | |||
| - 275,000 in all colonies | |||
- 7,000 in Boston | |||
- 5,000 in New York City | |||
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|1718 | |||
|French establish New Orleans | |||
|receives migration from Canada and France | |||
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|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 | |||
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|1760 | |||
|'''colonial population estimate:''' | |||
| - total population est. at 1,600,000 | |||
- estimated 350,000 white migrants were indentured servants | |||
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|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) | |||
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| 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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'''DETAILS''' | '''DETAILS''' | ||