southern part of the united states
Well for one, they were going to the new world to escape the Roman Catholic Church and make their own church.
The Prazo system, which began in the early 1500's, was a semi-feudal Portuguese land grant system which was designed to force Portuguese colonists to settle on African lands. The Prazos operated as a fusion of Portuguese and African traditions to create estates which were tied to the Portuguese crown.
Most of the new immigrants settled in New York. The city was close to the port, access to jobs, and communities were safer than frontier life.
Excluding the Vikings from Scandinavia and Iceland, the first Europeans to settle in the Americas were the Spanish and the Portuguese. Columbus arrived in the islands off North America in 1492, and he and others established colonies for Spain in the West Indies. Portugal, having established an easterly trade route around Africa, also became interested in the New World, establishing a colony in Brazil in 1500.
The Portuguese settled in Brazil in the Americas
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The Portuguese, in 1680.
To seek for treasures.
They lived in South America.
There were many reasons to settle in the New World. Settlers were looking for wealth, or a better position in society, or freedom of worship among other things.
they went to the new world
Northern Africa.
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The Portuguese founded Rio de Janeiro on March 1, 1565.
Sneaky trees.
Because your momma was there