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Caribbean, North and South America have about 12 million Africans.
600,000 Africans were imported to the U.S. -
Charles l, King of England and a Scotland, persecuted religious dissenters.
About 20,000 Puritans led to the migration to New England between 1629 and 1642. -
Spanish founded upon the conquest of the Aztecs, Incas, and another large Native American populations in the 16th century.
The purpose of of this colony was to find gold. -
It took a long time to convince John Smith to search for gold.
Tobacco later became a cash crop, with the work of John Rolfe and others. -
Roman Catholics were the first ones to immigrate to the New World.
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During the 17th century, indentured servants constituted 75% of all European immigrants to the Chesapeake region.
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By selling passage for 5 to 7 years worth of work they could then start out on their own in America.
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Some claimed that a native who had rebelled and then been captured could be enslaved nonetheless.
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Native populations declined from European diseases, they were often replaced by Africans imported through a large commercial slave trade.
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The large-scale contact with Europeans after 1492 introduced novel germs to the indigenous people of the Americas.
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Africans sold Europeans on the West African coast.
Africans were forced to work under brutal conditions.
