Apush Supplemental Reading Notes- Early Settlements by James Horn

Even with the influx of new colonies, which followed with new raw materials and more subjects, the

What was the significance of the tremendous growth of population in Britain's North American colonies?

2. France gave away Newfoundland, the Hudson Bay, Nova Scotia, and the authority over the Iroquois Confederacy to the British. France kept control over Cape Breton Island, Prince Edward Island, the St. Lawrence Islands, and the fishing rights off of Newfoundland.

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At the time Spain claimed Mexico, and the Southwest portions of what would be known as America. France had their hands on most of present-day Canada, as well as Louisiana. The Dutch set foot on land they called New Amsterdam, however, The English, who had settled their first colony in Jamestown, Virginia, drove the Dutch out and claimed New Amsterdam for themselves, later renaming it New York.

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In 1700 there were only 300,000 people inhabiting the original thirteen colonies, but then the population doubled every twenty-five years and only seventy-five years later, the population rose to 2.5 million people. This population spike caused a major shift in power from Britain to the colonies because originally in 1700 there were twenty English officials for every one colonist, but by 1775 there was only three English official per colonist.

1. How does the growth of the colonial population compare to the growth of the American population today? The growth rate was only at 3.5% back then where as today it must be triple that, or more. Also our population today grows much faster due to medicine for diesaes and such.

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As Americans moved west, they multiplied at an amazing rate; population was doubling every 25 years

In the eighteenth century the colonies of New England possessed great economic and demographic potential. They had raw materials and labor power, much of it given by the slaves. They had a great trade, an excellent agricultural production, all they lacked was the license of manufacture which the United Kingdom refused to allow its colonies. According to the traditional scheme the colony was the one that had to produce the raw material, that of the manufactured products already she was in charge, that was of the causes of the independence of the colonies. But let us first address the demographic potential of the new English colonies of North America. In the eighteenth century the most densely populated colonies were New Hampshire, Connecticut,

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What are the main ideas or key concepts that the reader must understand in order to understand the author’s argument? (100-150

As of the materials that are in the history textbooks for student, most of them do not tell the truth about the early American settlement. According to James W. Loewen many of the college student he questioned told him the wrong answer about when was the first original settlement of America. What Loewen heard from the student was 1620 but the real answer was about 30,000 B.C. because that was near the time the Native-American arrive at this part of the world and lived there. Talking about the first American settlement. a century before the first settlement of Jamestown, the Spanish has explore and lived there for generations. Most of the glory History of America that student are learning from their textbook are untruthful.

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