Fundamental factors like the growing powers all the governments, a new thrust and desire for foreign goods- especially Asian goods, and a desire to spread the Christian religion drew the Europeans to the exploration, conquest and settlement of the New World. The key players in exploration of the New World all became more powerful. The Portuguese set up trading posts along the coast of Africa which allowed money to flow through the country, giving them more power. The marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile unified the kingdom of Spain, which increased its power. This increase in power made many countries and governments hungry for more power and would do anything to find it.
One English king noticed how much the woolen merchants were making in Flanders. So he invited them to England, gave them a tax break, and soon the English were making all the money. Others like the Spanish sort of missed the boat. They had all this gold and silver from the americas and it used to import goods into spain. The only ones who got rich, were the non spanish merchants.
Central and South America had settled in Spanish, the English chose to explore North America.Either find it or steal gold, or by serving as a trading post was established to make money.Tobacco proved to be easy to develop and bring in a great deal of revenue for the colony. (Notes) Missionary purposes were quite similar for both Spain and England. Both countries were interested in spreading Christianity. Although the Spanish people of God, which they tried to spread their religion, at least so far as it was righteous.The cathedrals and religious monument
Backing this world power was the Spanish Armada, which was known for never losing a sea battle. Along with the Spanish Armada the Spanish had amassed quite a collection of gold from their previous world exploits. The major setback of the Spanish in conquering the new lands was how thinly their army was spread. Due to issues in their Dutch territories, the Spanish left the Indian Islands and Jamaica up for colonization. Great Britain would eventually swoop in and
A brilliant economic system was brought forth that is still used today in all parts of the world. Colbert was the inventor of this system, called Mercantilism, and he created it to bring wealth to the French and his king. The goal that Colbert aimed to do was to acquire gold for France. He knew France had to export as much as possible. This meant maximizing exports, so this Mercantil system said to sell as many goods as possible to
The Positive Effects of Westward Expansion There were many changes in the United States during Westward Expansion. Though many changes were negative, the positive things outweighed the bad things. Without Westward Expansion the US would never be the strong, independent nation it is now and we gained almost one third of the land that we own now. Also, another positive effect on the United States was the California Gold Rush, which brought diversity to our country and created jobs. After all of the bad things that our country went through, we came out as a stronger nation.
Many of the early puritans and pilgrims arrived in America with a fervent faith and vision for establishing a godly nation. Within a century the ardor had cooled. The children of the original immigrants were more concerned with increasing wealth and comfortable living than furthering the Kingdom of God. The same spiritual malaise could be found throughout the American colonies. The philosophical rationalism of the Enlightenment was spreading its influence among the educated classes; others were preoccupied with the things of this world.
Explain how improvements in transportation and communication made possible the rise of the West as a powerful, self-conscious region of the new nation. With the market revolution, came a large influx of improvements in transportation and communication. Without these improvements the rise of the western United States would have been a far slower process. By 1784 the US population had boomed and after the War of 1812 the number of land seeking settlers was astounding. Prior too many critical inventions the processes to which America operated under changed little since the colonial era.
The Caribbean islands were a great place for sugar to be produced because of the warm climates, rainfall, latitude, and soil composition (doc. 2). Since the sugar was produced from colonies it was exported cheaply to England where it was processed and sold back to the colonies for money which benefited the ‘mother country’(doc. 12). To buy an adult male slave on the West African coast was on 14 pounds in 1748 and to sell a slave in England during the same year was 32 pounds(doc 9).
As shown in (Doc.1) you could see why the British and the French competed for power over the Caribbean. The Caribbean was an ideal waterway for trading with other countries. It had routes that could lead in any direction which made sugar trade a whole lot easier and a marvelous way to obtain wealth. In addition, sugar trade was driven by consumer demand. I agree but disagree with some of the text stated in (Doc.4) because sugar is compared to as alcohol by its addictive taste to people that had never tasted sugar before.