| A | B |
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| England is backward and it lacks a strong monarch to unify England until Elizabeth I | England was about 100 years behind Spain in colonizing the New World |
| England's contempt for Ireland and its close proximity | England is given its first practice in colonizing a population it sees as heathens and savages |
| Queen Elizabeth I's rein (1558-1603) | England was unified, achieved an era of greatness, and was ready to colonize the New World |
| Defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588 | Spain lost power and England emerged as a major power |
| The writings of Richard Hakluyt | Persuaded important people in England of the need to colonize the New World |
| England's rapidly growing population, primogeniture, and enclosure movement, limited natural resources, need to for markets to sell finished goods, and competition with Spain and France | Created a compelling set of motivations for England to colonize the New World |
| The rise of the joint stock company | Financed colonial adventures such as Jamestown |
| Jamestown's poor location, disease, problems with Indians, and unwillingness to work | Jamestown almost failed until John Smith whipped the colony into shape and then was returned to those problems when Smith was banished |
| John Rolfe's discovery of an ideal strain of tobacco in Virginia that was much better than the West Indian variety | The Chesapeake finds its main economic activity |
| Lord Baltimore wants to establish a colony for English Catholics- a religious minority in England | Maryland is established |
| South Carolina's first settlers from the West Indies and the large numbers of slaves required to grow rice | South Carolina becomes more similar to the West Indies culturally and economically than any of the other of the 13 colonies |
| The Maryland Act of Toleration (1649) | A precedent for religious freedom of religion which will eventually take the form of the First Amendment |
| The extremely labor intensive nature of rice | South Carolina has by far the largest concentration of African slaves |
| Squatters from Virginia and South Carolina migrate to North Carolina | A colony that is very different economically than its neighbors in Virginia and South Carolina |
| The West Indies' dependence on sugar and the crop's extremely harsh working conditions | Most African slaves are brought to the West Indies and Brazil and many are worked to death |
| A need to transport nonviolent prisoners and establish a buffer between Spanish Florida and South Carolina | James Oglethorpe established Georgia |
| Georgia's initial prohibition of slavery | Georgia's ideals quickly waned as the colony came to mirror South Carolina |
| The slave codes of England’s Barbados colony | Became the legal basis for slavery in North America |
| Georgia’s unhealthy climate, restrictions on slavery, and vulnerability to Spanish attacks | Kept the buffer colony poor and largely unpopulated for a long time |
