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Feb 11, 1492
Migration to North America
Waves of repression led to the migration of about 20,000 Puritans to New England between 1629 and 1642, where they founded multiple colonies -
Feb 11, 1500
Disease and Indigenous Population Loss
The European lifestyle included a long history of sharing close quarters with domesticated animals, which had resulted in epidemic diseases unknown in the Americas.
Epidemics swept the Americas subsequent to European contact, killing between 10 million and 100 million people, up to 95% of the indigenous population of the Americas :
smallpox (1518, 1521, 1525, 1558, 1589,
typhus (1546),
influenza (1558),
diphtheria (1614)
and measles (1618) -
Feb 11, 1537
The slavery question
In 1537, the papacy definitively recognized that Native Americans possessed souls, thus prohibiting their enslavement, without putting an end to the debate.Later, the Valladolid debate between the Dominican priest Bartolomé de Las Casas and another Dominican philosopher Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, each took opposing positions to justify enslavement and nothing was resolved. -
Indetured Servants
From the beginning of VA's settlements in 1587 until the 1680s, the main source of labor and a large portion of the immigrants were indentured servants looking for new life in the overseas colonies -
Forced immagration and slavery
Slavery existed in the Americas prior to the arrival of Europeans, as different American Indian groups often captured and held other tribes' members as slavesdiseases, forced exploitation, atrocities, they As the native populations declined from European were often replaced by Africans imported through a large commercial slave trade -
Scope of the slave trade
The total slave trade to islands in the Caribbean, North & South America is estimated to have involved 12 million Africans -
the search for riches
main purpose of the colony was the hope of finding gold
sponsored by common stock companies such as the chartered Virginia Company financed by wealthy Englishmen who exaggerated the economic potential of this new land.
founded upon the conquest of the Aztecs, Incas, and other large Native American populations in the 16th century -
Virginia Colonies
It took strong leaders, like John Smith, to convince the colonists of Jamestown that searching for gold was not taking care of their immediate needs for food and shelter -
Atlantic Slave Trade
Captured Africans were sold to European slave traders on the West African coastenslaved Africans were auctioned and forced to work under brutal conditions. -
Religous immagration
Roman Catholics were the first major religious group to immigrate to the New World
English and Dutch colonies, tended to be more religiously diverse
