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English Settlement

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English Colonization and Indentured Servitude and White Trash
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Put the vocab in the correct category

  • Social- Strict racial lines- little racial mixing
  • Social - Casta System large mestizo population
  • Religion- Mostly protestent- diverse religions some moved to escape religious persecution
  • Religion- Catholic focus on converting native population sent many priests
  • Political- representative local governments- authonomy
  • Economic- Joint Stock Companies/ Capitalism
  • Economic- Encomienda/ Feudalism
  • Class- Conquistadors/ Upper Class
  • Political- Governed by governors (viceroys) who were appointed by the crown- had to follow kings lasws
  • Class- Rich land owners and Indentured Servants large wealth gap
  • English Colonies
  • Spanish Colonies
Discourse on Western Planting by Richard Hakluyt (the younger) (1584)

No foreign commodity that comes into England comes without payment of custom once, twice, or thrice, before it come into the realm, and so all foreign commodities become dearer to the subjects of this realm; and [colonial] customs are avoided; and the [colonial] commodities cheaply purchased, they become cheap to the subjects of England, to the common benefit of the people, and to the saving of great treasure in the realm; whereas now the realm become the poor by the purchasing of foreign commodities in so great a mass at so excessive prices.
At the first traffic with the people of those parts, the subjects of this realm for many years shall change many cheap commodities of these parts for things of high valor there not esteemed; and this to the great enriching of the realm, if common use fail not.
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What is the point of view of Richard Hakluyt?

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What is the effect of Hakluyt's vision for the new world

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“Taking Out the Trash”
Excerpt from White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, by Nancy Isenberg

Nancy Isenberg's point of view about the "vision of the new world" of the English is that it is

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What led to the creation of "waste people"

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How did England use these "waste people"