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Push and Pull factors of colonisation in America. - Coggle Diagram
Push and Pull factors of colonisation in America.
Pull Factors
Religious
Protestant groups, like the Pilgrims and Puritans, came to the Americas to establish their own
communities
America at that time is where they could worship God in their own way. Catholics, Quakers, and Jews later
came to the colonies seeking freedom of worship.
Social/Political
Encouragement from rulers
British monarchs encouraged the development of colonies as new sources of wealth and power.
They granted charters to groups of business man who offered to help colonists to settle in the "new world"
Political freedom to have voting rights
Economic
hunger for gold and silver
They believed that gold and silvers existed in a great abundance in America, These early adventurers came to the Americas in search of precious metals.
Land hunger
Colonial settlements presented new business opportunities for merchants
In America, land still seemed plentiful. The settlers did not recognize the rights of
Native American Indians or understand their use of the land.
Debtors
Later many colonists came as “indentured servants.” A colonial landowner paid for their passage across
the Atlantic, and the indentured servant promised to work on the landowner’s plantation or farm, usually for a period of seven years
.Once the debt was paid off, indentured servants obtained freedom
and began saving to buy their own land.
Push factors
Economic
Better economic opportunities
Most colonists had faced difficult lives in Britain, Ireland, Scotland, or Germany.
They came to the
Americas to escape poverty, warfare, political turmoil, famine and disease.
Job loss
their farmland changed to raising livestock (they have to rent the land from the landlord. (Landlord: sheep raising is more profitable, thus take away their land for making wool)
Many farmers lost their jobs, they had to move to another country to find new opportunities
Social/politocal
new life
Most colonists had faced difficult lives in Britain, Ireland, Scotland, or Germany. They came to the Americas to escape poverty, warfare, political turmoil, famine and disease.
They believed colonial life offered new opportunities.
Religious
The puritans were being persecuted in England
The Church of England was in power.