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Push and Pull factors of colonisation in America - Coggle Diagram
Push and Pull factors of colonisation in America
Pull
Economic
accumulation of surplus capital and the profit capital and the profit move
Joint-stock companies sold shares of stock to venturers and enabled them to share the expense and risk of founding colonies as business enterprises
They went to search for raw materials such as silver, gold, precious metal
Through mercantilism, In order to make it into finished products and sell it to other countries due to the climate in UK being too cold, it is not suitable to plant cash crops there so that they can farm and plant cash crops there in other countries.
Religious
They want to practice their religion freely
So the protestant can worship their god freely so they can create a new religious system which will not get them arrested
Missionaries then converted natives into christians
Social and Political
Political freedom (as there is no government set up yet) they can set up their own government however they want it to be, they can have their own law and have voting rights, for example, john smith who's in Jamestown
Set up their own law and have voting rights
Push
Social And Political
Desire for a religious freedom was the wish of some people who opposed to the monarchy for a greater degree of political freedom than they had in England.
Taking land out of cultivation and converting it into pastureland for sheep, creating a surplus population. Sheep raising, more profitable than traditional agriculture, required less labourers. The new lands in America gave these unemployed a place to work.
Religious
people wanted to migrate to America where they were offered barren land and great distance from the mother country to settle in religious matters and to pursue their own consciences.
The Protestant Reformation gave rise to dissenting sects that tried vigorously to worship according to their own beliefs instead of maintaining the theological uniformity that the Anglican Church demanded.
Non-conforming sects of faith were prosecuted as being deceptive towards the king.
Farmers and Poverty
Poverty in england
their farmland changed into raisin livestock due to the landowners thinking pastoral farming is more profitable
some farmers stole for a living