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The British economy had begun to grow rapidly at the end of the 17th century and, by the mid-18th century, small factories in Britain were producing much more than the nation could consume. Britain found a market for their goods in the British colonies of North America, increasing her exports to that region by 360% between 1740 and 1770.
In the early 17th century, thousands of English Puritans settled in North America, almost all in New England.Puritans were intensely devout members of the Church of England who believed that the Church of England was insufficiently reformed, retaining too much of its Roman Catholic doctrinal roots, and who therefore opposed royal ecclesiastical policy.
The great majority went to sugar colonies in the Caribbean and to Brazil, where life expectancy was short and the numbers had to be continually replenished. By the mid-18th century, life expectancy was much higher in the American colonies. [76]
The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCI), to December 31, 1700 (MDCC).. It falls into the early modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, [1] the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis ...
In the early 17th century, the first wave of English immigrants began arriving in North America, settling mainly around the Chesapeake Bay in Virginia and Maryland. Virginian settlers were dominated by noblemen with their servants (many were Cavaliers fleeing in the aftermath of the English Civil War , 1642–51) and poor peasants from southern ...
17th-century North American people (4 C) / 17th-century disestablishments in North America (15 C, 4 P) 17th-century establishments in North America (22 C, 2 P) 0–9.
Anthony Johnson (b. c. 1600 – d. 1670) was a man from Angola who achieved wealth in the early 17th-century Colony of Virginia.Held as an indentured servant in 1621, he earned his freedom after several years and was granted land by the colony.
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