1. Setting the Stage for English Settlement in North America
What happened in the Western Hemisphere before the 13 colonies were settled?

2. The Columbian Exchange
-Transfer of goods between Europe, Africa and America
-Began with Columbus’s exploration
-Over time raw materials, manufactured goods and slaves became involved in the trade pattern.
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3. Northwest Passage
-Europeans wanted to find a NW Passage – a water route through N.A. that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
-John Cabot (England), Giovanni da Verrazano (France), Jacques Cartier (France), Henry Hudson (Dutch and England) all explored N.A. for the NW Passage.
-None of these explorers ever found the NW Passage, but their explorations led to increased European interest in North America.

5. Beginnings of Slavery in the Americas
New Labor Force
-Europeans were immune to diseases like measles, small pox, and typhus, but the Native Americans were not.
-Millions of Native Am. Died from these diseases once Europeans reached the New World.
-Plantation agriculture was a mainstay of colonial economic structure. These plantations required a large number of laborers to work the fields.
-In 1510 the Spanish gov’t legalized the sale of slaves in it’s colonies to use as labor for plantations.

6. Middle Passage
-The voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that enslaved Africans were forced to endure.