why was the defeat of the spanish armada important for english colonization of the new world?
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if the "undefeatable" armada hadn't been defeated, the english would never have had enough control over the seas to have traveled so freely to colonize the americas. the spanish would have gotten there first and claimed those areas for their own.
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Mexico, and ultimately the United States (we got land later) benefited. Spain lost out.
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new york was originall new amsterdam which is to say the Dutch were the first colonists to settle the area, it was later captured by the British and renamed as present.
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There wasn't much of a coherent argument. People were scared because of the Panic of 1893 that the US was running out of natural resources and capital, and businesses feared that they would need to have new land to be able to be competitive in the industrial world. The actual expansion that took place was justified by accusations that Spain was abusing its colonies, and so we had a moral obligation to come to their aid, but that's clearly not why we went to war with Spain.
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Same reason they settled in other colonies: opportunity!!  Opportunity to worship, to self-governance, to create something, to start over, for an adventure!
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There's still disagreement about just where Columbus first saw the new world and set foot upon its shores.  No one knows for sure.\n\nHere are some sites that may be helpful to you.  Best of luck.
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1689—1763, the name given by American historians to the North American colonial wars between Great Britain and France in the late 17th and the 18th cent. They were really campaigns in the worldwide struggle for empire and were roughly linked to wars of the European coalitions. At the time they were viewed in Europe as only an unimportant aspect of the struggle, and, although the stakes were Canada, the American West, and the West Indies, the fortunes of war in Europe had more effect in determining the winner than the fighting in the disputed territory itself.\n\nTo the settlers in America, however, the rivalry of the two powers was of immediate concern, for the fighting meant not only raids by the French or the British but also the horrors of tribal border warfare. The conflict may be looked on, from the American viewpoint, as a single war with interruptions. The ultimate aim–domination of the eastern part of the continent–was the same; and the methods–capture of the seaboard strongholds and the little Western forts and attacks on frontier settlements–were the same.\n\nThe wars helped to bring about important changes in the British colonies. In addition to the fact of their ocean-wide distance from the mother country, the colonies felt themselves less dependent militarily on the British by the end of the wars; they became most concerned with their own problems and put greater value on their own institutions. In other words, they began to think of themselves as American rather than British.\n\nUsing trading posts and forts, both the British and the French claimed the vast territory between the Appalachians and the Mississippi river, from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, known as the Ohio Country. \nBoth European countries ignored Native American claims to the land in order to pursue their beaver pelt economies. \nThe British colonists feared papal influence in North America (New France was administered by French governors and Roman Catholic hierarchy and missionaries such as Armand de La Richardie were active). For the predominantly Protestant British settlers, French control over North America could have represented a threat to their religious and other freedoms that were provided by English law.
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"Remember the Maine! To hell with Spain!" cried the media directly implicating Spain after the USS Maine suffered an explosion in Havana harbor killing hundreds of sailors.  Spanish occupation of Cuba was blamed for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Cubans.  Media fueled the public sentiment against Spain and the US decided to 'liberate' Cuba from the Spanish and create a free and independent Cuba.  With the US economy languishing, many thought that a war would help the economy.  Thousands were killed during the war.\n\nWith the benefit of modern forensic science, the explosion is now widely believed to have been an accident caused by the spontaneous combustion of gunpowder magazines situated too close to heat sources.\n\nKind of sounds familiar doesn't it?
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To declare our independance from Britain. The Declaration stated the reasons why the thirteen colonies were freeing themselves from British Rule.\nJust read the ideals part of the declaration. It tells u pretty much why in more detail.
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It was the Elizabethan Age, the reign of Elizabeth I.  The explorations by the English began then, and the difficulties with Spain and the defeat of its Armada occured then.  There was a good deal of artistic fourishing, and also an increase in commerce and trade, and the usual political/religious bickering.  That was as far as England goes, but all of Europe was similarly in more or less the same phase of opening up to new worlds and new combinations of power and politics and economic growth.
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Spanish Galleons are big three masted cargo ships that traveled from Spain, to Africa, then to the New World, to Asia (Philippines) and then back to the New World and Spain. Spices in Asia were extremely valuable back in the 16th century. The Spanish settled the islands and traded with the Filippino natives. They often used the natives as slaves and in fact, there is said to be a community of Filippino Americans  who live in Louisiana who are descendents from the first Filippinos brought over from Asia by the Spanish. The name "Philippines" comes from King Phillip of Spain. Also, today you can see a lot of the Spanish influence in the Philippines. Most Filippinos are Catholic and the cuisine is very similar to Spanish and Mexican foods. Good luck with your report. It helps if you do your own research.
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The colonists kept pushing the natives westward while taking their land. The natives did not claim the land because they believed the land was for everybody to share. Unfortunately, the colonists won in the end because they had better weapons, and the natives knew this. :(
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The US had not entered the war with the intention of gaining a colonial empire. However, at the end of the war the colonial ruler Spain was militarily crushed and the three remaining colonies (Cuba, Puerto Rico and Philippines) were in rebellion. The US felt if they did not take posession that they would be seized by European powers (a German flotilla did show up off of Manila Bay).
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The ending of the War of Spanish Succession(Queen Anne's War) resulted in the English gaining former Spanish settlements in the Treaty of Utrecht.
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Christopher Columbus (October 30, 1451? – 20 May 1506) was an explorer and trader, who crossed the Atlantic Ocean and reached the Americas on October 12, 1492 under the flag of Castile. History places a great significance on his landing in America in 1492, with the entire period of the history of the Americas before this date usually known as Pre-Columbian, and the anniversary of this event, Columbus Day, is celebrated in many parts of America. Although there is evidence of Pre-Columbian trans-Atlantic Ocean European contact, Columbus is commonly credited as "the" European discoverer of the Americas because of the profound impact his contact wrought on history. His voyage marked the beginning of the European exploration and colonization of the Americas.\n\nIt is generally assumed he was Genoese, although some historians claim he could have been born in other places, from the Crown of Aragón to the Kingdoms of Galicia or Portugal, or in the Greek island of Chios, among others. The real name of the explorer is also unknown; see the section on Columbus' national origin for a discussion of his origin and names.
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English...the Bahamas were once a british colony.
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French colonization of North America http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonization_of_the_Americas and Dutch colonization of North America http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_colonization_of_the_Americas#North_America\n\nGood Luck!!!