In May of 1607 colonist landed in Virginia creating the first English colony in Jamestown. Like most colonies trading was the number one producer of revenue mostly Indian fur and gold. Another one of the colonies chief source of wealth was tobacco.
The American colonies helped Europe understand the world better, made them realize that the world extended past their normal understanding of the globe, forcing them to reshape maps. The new world also invited new enterprises new regions to explored, new conquest, also evolving trade and navigation techniques. The colonies made sugar, cotton, and rice more affordable by making them more accessible. Getting these products from the Mediterranean marked the price up enormously; now that they can be grown in the U.S. it lowered the price making it more accessible to the masses.
English rule on it’s colonizers was overbearing dealing with the reform of a new world and the Imperial rule of it’s mother country caused great discontent within the colonies. Heavy taxation on normal every day products made life in the colonies very hard. Growing upheaval resulted in the American Revolution allowing the colonies to succeed from England.
European/English colonization also had a negative effect on the Native Americans. Native Americans suffered a severe lost in land, increase in disease due to the lack of immunity against foreign sickness, and new law that conflicted with there normal way of life. Guns and horses changed the way these native hunted for food, making it easier and severely exhausting wildlife populations. Fights over land caused bloody battles as Native Americans were displaced from their original occupancies; Indians mainly from the Eastern Woodland region were ravished so badly by colonization that their history was extinguished.
http://www.funsocialstudies.learninghaven.com/articles/natives2.htm
http://www.rootsweb.com/~neresour/OLLibrary/Montgomery/mahp035.htm
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