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Is it true or false that the colonization of the English colonies in North America was completed in less than half a century?
Property ownership of at least 1,000 acres
Portuguese settlled in the American colonies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. 70% of Portuguese immigrants to the United States came from the Azores, while most of the remainder came from the other Portuguese islands in the Atlantic. Most of the emigrants from mainland Portugal went to Brazil, although the more recent immigration to the United States during the middle of the twentieth century has originated from mainland Portugal
southern colonies refused to use indians as forced labor
Plantation slavery expanded a lot in the British colonies of North America in the 18th century. Some people also called for the abolition of slavery.
More than half the English migrants to the New World in those years settled on this islands. The island societies had close ties to English North America from the beginning and influenced the development of the mainland colonies in several ways.
False
Is it true or false that the colonization of the English colonies in North America was completed in less than half a century?
The English empire expanded into America in the mid seventeenth century by making permanent colonies. The first colony was in Virginia. They then moved to the Caribbean and other parts of North America.
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Despite the importance of sugar production in the Caribbean and of cattle ranching on the mexican mainland--which had a devasting effect on the fragile ecosystem of central america---it was MINING that shaped the spanish colonies of central and south america most fundamentally.
Shipbuilding was a significant part of the Middle colonies' economy in 17th century North America.
Many colonies in Latin America began striving for independence from Spain and Portugal in the early 19th century. By the middle of the century most of the countries were free.
The Spanish started colonies in the Caribbean, Mexico and Central/South America in the early sixteenth century.
Columbus began forming colonies for Spain in 1492 and 1493. They colonized for about another century.