SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
NORTH AMERICAN SETTLEMENTS
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Many Native Americans died from diseases.
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Many European settlers died from poor diet.
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Many European settlers introduced live stock to the New World.
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Many Native Americans began exploring and settling new lands.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Europe’s conquest and colonization of North and South America and the Caribbean islands from the fifteenth century onward created an insatiable demand for African laborers, who were deemed more fit to work in the tropical conditions of the New World.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ivory, gold and other trade resources attracted Europeans to West Africa. As demand for cheap labour to work on plantations in the Americas grew, people enslaved in West Africa became the most valuable ‘commodity’ for European traders.
Detailed explanation-3: -The history and growth of slavery in colonial America was tied to the rise of land cultivation, and particularly the boom in the production of tobacco (in Virginia and Maryland) and rice (in the Carolinas).
Detailed explanation-4: -This remarkable growth was the result of two factors: (1) continued importation of new slaves from Africa and the Caribbean; and (2) natural population growth, especially among American-born slaves, who lived longer lives and bore more children than African-born slaves.