Push and Pull Factors of New World Migration to America
Indentured Servants
People who could not afford passage to the colonies could become indentured servants. Another person would pay their passage, and in exchange, the indentured servant would serve that person for a set length of time (usually seven years) and then would be free.
Who were some of the first immigrants to the New World?
Priests and monks accompanied the exploration forces of the military to convert the indigenous peoples to Christianity while military looked for resources: gold.
Immigrants
people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country
Imperialism/Colonialism
Imperialism- A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, socially, and economically. Colonialism- policy by which a nation administers a foreign territory and develops its resources for the benefit of the colonial power
What were some environmental factors that pushed people to come to the New World?
Natural disasters such as crop failure, famine, floods, earthquakes, plague and disease pushed people to come to the New World to find safety in a better climate.
Mercantilism
Economic policy designed to increase wealth by government regulation by the 'mother country' to control trade and the commercial interests in the New World.
Name 6 European countries that adopted Colonialism in the New World:
England, Spain, France, Germany, Holland and Sweden
The Labor Supply and Forced Migration
European countries got rid of rebels, convicts, religious dissenters, vagabonds and trouble makers while increasing labor supply in the New World which benefited the "Mother Country'.
Slavery
A system of enforced servitude in which some people are owned by other people.
African Slave Trade
African peoples captured and taken as slaves to South America (sugar cane plantations) and North America (cotton plantations)
Colonialism
An attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory tenrich the 'mother country'.
Why did Catholic monarchs of Europe want to happen in the New World?
Catholic monarch, especially Spain, wanted to spread Christianity in the New World by converting indigenous people of America's to Christianity (by any means).
exploitation
Taking advantage of a weaker group
push and pull factors of immigration
The push and pull factors of New World Migration are caused by economic, political, environmental and social reasons.
1717 Transportation Act was?
This new act gave judges the option of removing convicted felons from the streets and jails without having to take away their lives in the process. The Act seemed to offer help with the American colonies' desperate need for cheap labor. The Transportation Act applied to two categories of offenses. For offenses where criminals would normally receive Benefit of Clergy, the judge could now directly sentence the guilty party to transportation for 7 years in lieu of branding or whipping, which were the only possible punishments for such offenses before passage of the act. The second category of offense covered by the Transportation Act was non-clergyable offenses, more serious felonies where execution was the normal punishment. After being handed a formal sentence of death, the offender could receive mercy from the Crown and be pardoned on condition of transportation for 14 years or some other determined period, including life. Convicts who had been sentenced to transportation and returned before finishing their term were liable to an automatic death sentence.
What is the difference between Imperialism and Colonialism?
Though both the words underline suppression of the other,Colonialism is where one nation assumes control over the other and Imperialism refers to political or economic control, either formally or informally. In simple words,colonialism can be thought to be a practice and imperialism as the idea driving the practice.
migrate/migration
To move from one country, region, or place into another.
