what are the 3 reasons colonist came to america?
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Economic advancement, freedom from religious persecution, some just came for the "adventure".
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The British colony in Massachusetts started because of money. English "gentlement" flocked to the colony in hopes to make a quick buck with cash crops. Some women also came, but the vast majority were men.\n\nOf course, there were many varied (and potentially life-threatening) factors at work once they arrived, but that exceeds the scope of the question.
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Besides fast food and hate what is American culture.  Please don't tell me freedom, or you would not be asking such a ridiculous question.  Part of becoming a better person is remembering where you came from.  Besides unless you are a Native Indian you too come from immigration.  How much do you know about the struggles that brought your people to America?
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Wow.  When you type in your homework questions, could you make it clear that it's a multiple choice ... and number the choices?  (The hardest part of answering these questions is figuring out what the darn question is.)\n\nFirst question:\n1. their ancestors had migrated from South America to the Galapagos Islands. \n\nSecond question:\n3. because of natural selection
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The immigration from Europe to the colonies started because of a desire for religious freedom from tyranny.  The Church and the State were too intertwined and both had become too political.
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Columbus never came to the area now known as the US. He was in the Caribbean. The Caribbean was inhabited by the Carib Indians and the Arawak Indians, and other indigenous peoples. \n\nThroughout the New World there were indigenous peoples already living here before Columbus. Some of the people living in the Americas have ancestors who were among these aboriginal peoples, but most do not.
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The Middle Colonies were a part of the original Thirteen Colonies that would later become The United States of America. The region was originally New Netherland, which was later divided into the western half of Connecticut (which today is part of New England), New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and Delaware. Today, these areas are described as the Mid-Atlantic States.\nThe Middle Colonies were the most ethnically and religiously diverse of the thirteen original colonies because of the influence of their English, Dutch, French and German origins. This influence included tolerance and cosmopolitanism, and resulted in New Netherland's success as the commercial center of the eastern North American colonies. This was evidenced by the fact that they had more agriculture than the New England colonies. The Middle Colonies were also known as the "bread basket" colonies because of their large grain export. It was also the mid-Atlantic colonies that expanded into other areas of commerce before the others.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Colonies\n\nThe Southern Colonies were the Province of North Carolina, Province of South Carolina, and Province of Georgia, Province of Maryland, and Province of Virginia.\n\nSome reasons for colonists to move to the Southern Colonies were gold, resources, and land. But most of all, colonists who wanted to reap huge profits started plantations. Their economy was supported by plantations, mostly run by Slavery in the United States, except for Georgia, where most plantations were run by debtors. Charleston, South Carolina, and Savannah, Georgia, also traded with Great Britain, slave ships from Africa, and the Caribbean. Their cash crops were tobacco, cotton, indigo, rice, and sugar cane. Colony and Dominion of Virginia and Province of Maryland are sometimes considered part of the Southern Colonies. The government was dominated mainly by planters and farmers.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_colonies
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What would be a reason to colonize any land?  Why did the Indians come over here way back when the land was connected to Europe?   Hunger for food, wealth, saftey and life.   It is rather silly to equate our feelings and our present laws with the actions and rules that were prevalent in those days.   It was nothing at all to kill for survival and greed in those days.    The Native American also killed, pillaged and raped his neighbor for numerous reasons and it was an accepted fact.   I don't think you can find any other nation in the world that has coddled and repaid their indigenous people as well as has the USA.  Check it out!  Go to an old plantation in the south and look at the slaves quarters, then look at what they came from. Early death in the disease ridden jungles, right? They had it better here as slaves, except with bad slave owners, of course.  Think about it!
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It was one of the original 13 colonies that formed the United States.
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Here are some sites that may help you:\n\nhttp://www.answers.com/topic/colonization-of-africa\nhttp://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/comp/cw25colonizationafrica.htm\nhttp://www.yaleslavery.org/TownGown/coloniz.html
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His voyages to the Americas began a European effort at exploration and colonization of the continent. While history places great significance on his first voyage of 1492, he did not actually reach the mainland until his third voyage in 1498.
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Im pretty sure that Jamestown was founded to start the beginning of the new colonies that England planned to establish in America.  The men were sent over to set up the colony as it was only forest when they landed so that it would be suitable for women and children to come over later after they had made sure the area was safe and that there was proper shelter for them.
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Columbus wanted to prove you could sail to the far east by sailing west, that the world was round.\n\nAnd, he didn't discover America. He thought we was in India.\n\nColumbus was the prototype of a Politician: he headed off not knowing where he was going, arrived not knowing were he was, and did it all on borrowed money.
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By whom?  And do you actually mean the United States or do you mean North America?  \n\nMany anthropologists now believe that Asians crossed the Bering Strait thousands of years ago to become the first human settlers of North America.  The Vikings visited the coasts of Labrador, Newfoundland, and possibly the eastern seaboard hundreds of years before Columbus.  Portuguese and Spanish fishermen were fishing off the coast of Newfoundland long before 1492.  By anyone's definition, Columbus was a late-comer.  And in any event when he got to the coast of North America there were already people here, so he didn't actually "discover" it.
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The first European to reach the Americas was Christopher Columbus in 1492 but the continent were already populated by indeginious population before then when the land bridge formed between Asia Europe and America during the ice age and prehistoric people moved there.
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Behring's strait. It is said that people crossed it from Asia many centuries ago, to populate America
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Some of the reasons are for a better life, but migration began long before the 90's, and include Texas. Thier most valid reason (they say) is to claim the land they were forced from, do a little research on Google on Hispanic migration to the west