Explore how plantation agriculture shaped early America—from Virginia’s tobacco fields to the cotton plantations stretching from North ...

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Colonial America is more than a chapter in a textbook, it’s a living, breathing world scattered across some of the most ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Gettysburg College history professor Timothy Shannon talked about the early history of the colonization of North America. Gettysburg College is ...

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Discover how early settlers in Plymouth Colony learned to .....paving the way for America’s plantation crops like tobacco, rice, and cotton.

I. Religious motives in American colonization. Hakluyt's discourse on western planting. The crusade against Catholicism. Contributions of the German reformation. English religious minorities.

Starting in the 15th century, Portugal began exploring the African coast searching for a shorter route for trade with Asia. Not to be outdone, Spain sponsored Columbus’ voyage due west and discovered ...