Thursday, November 7, 2019

Europeans and Native Americans in the Northeast

Vocabulary

Great Migration: sometimes known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970.

Religious Toleration: are people allowing other people to think or practice other religions and beliefs. In a country with a state religion, toleration means that the government allows other religions to be there.

Q&A

Why did the French and Dutch depend heavily on the rivers of the Northeast?
 In the rivers were gold, gold at the time was very profitable.

Why did the puritans migrate from England to the Northeast?
The Puritans left England primarily due to religious persecution but also for economic reasons as well. In 1607, a sect of separatists from Yorkshire left England and moved to Leiden, Holland in search of religious freedom.

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