1. Often times when people started to seek new land, they would go to their King or Queen and request a charter. This was to discover new land and build new communities. They would occasionally get funding from a joint-stock company, but it was usually funded by the royal family. Once other communities got settled near one another, they would select burgesses to represent them in meetings between the little towns.
2. So they could get money from gold, silver, tobacco, and fish
3. Farming tobacco gave them a lot more money and they became more civil with the natives.
4. It would expand England’s territory.
5. The growth of Jamestown
a. Individual plot ownership
b. Separation form the Virginia Company
6. 30% were children.
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1. Puritans would persecute the separatists because they had a low tolerance for other religions and faiths. The separatists dissented the beliefs of the Anglicans, so they went aboard the mayflower. They then considered themselves pilgrims, so shortly after they arrived in America the created the mayflower compact to document their laws.
2. They wanted to reform a church. There was much religious difficulty in England at the time.
3. Rhode Island offered religious freedom to all, also the government was not mixed together with religion.
4. Both were plans on how to run their colonies, they were both important to the future government of America.
5. Interacting w/ Native Americans
a. Increased trade
b. War
c. Taking power of Native Americans in New England
6. Furs, Timber, Rum, and possibly fish.
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