SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
MAYFLOWER COMPACT DEFINITION SUMMARY HISTORY
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America to accept that no indepedence could be achived.
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America becoming an independent nation
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Each colony had its own government, but the British king controlled these governments. By the 1770s, many colonists were angry because they did not have self-government. This meant that they could not govern themselves and make their own laws. They had to pay high taxes to the king.
Detailed explanation-2: -How did England impose its political and economic control over the colonies. England established and attempted to maintain control over the colonies. England imposed strict control over trade. England taxed the colonies after the French and Indian War.
Detailed explanation-3: -Like the other European countries, England was motivated in part by the lure of both riches and the Northwest Passage. In 1606, King James I granted a charter to colonize Virginia to the Virginia Company of London, a joint-stock company of investors who believed there was a profit to be made.
Detailed explanation-4: -The colonists fought the British because they wanted to be free from Britain. They fought the British because of unfair taxes. They fought because they didn’t have self-government.