The Colonization of the Americas: Resulting in the Mayflower Compact, The Virginia House of Burgesses, spread of disease/massive deaths, European settled in new lands in the Americas to set up a new society, Native Americans and Taino people were taken over by the Europeans, Christopher Columbus' voyages encountered Europeans, Spanish exploited the Taino English took American colonies, Caused by... New markets, Natural Resources, glory greater political power, gold and silver, to support mercantilism, Christianization, Mayflower Compact: Resulting in... future compacts such as the Fundamental Order of Connecticut and the establishment of Maryland as a Catholic refuge with the Maryland Toleration Act, a document written by Pilgrims in 1620 where they agreed to live under a government created by themselves in Massachusetts while still being loyal to the king., Pilgrims aka Separatists wrote the document, Virginia Company, Caused by... Magna Carta- consent of the governed, majority rule, local church control, Virginia House of Burgesses: The first representative law-making body of the government in the American colonies, Powhatan peoples were imperialized, Virginia Joint-Stock Company sponsored the voyage and settlement, Governor George Yeardly, Caused by sponsorship from the Virginia Stock Company, Settling of Virginia, Enlightenment, Mayflower Compact, Caused by... Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, Petition of Right, Resulting in... Starting point of political careers of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, The Enlightenment: European intellectual movement that was about reason, science, knowledge, and experience, John Locke (Natural Rights), Montesquieu (Separation of Powers), Rousseau (Social Contract), and Voltaire (Freedom of Speech), Caused by... Renaissance, Scientific Revolution, Resulting in... influencing governments and revolutions as colonies were set up, Mercantilism: Regulation of a nation's economy for the purpose of increasing a nation's power to acquire as many resources as possible, especially gold and silver, which become the measurements of a nation's power, Britain, France, Portugal, Spain, caused by... Expansion of trade through capitalism expanding into the new world supporting exploration companies, Resulting in... Britain colonizing N. America, Spain colonizing Central and S. America, Resulting in... Portugal colonizing S. America, France taking the Caribbean Islands,

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