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England's Colonial Experiments: The...
Chapter Summary
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English colonization in the seventeenth century did not spring from a desire to build a centralized empire in the New World similar to that of Spain or France. Instead, the English crown awarded colonial charters to a wide variety of merchants, religious idealists, and aristocratic adventurers who established separate and profoundly different colonies. This chapter discusses briefly the English colonies established in the seventeenth century. Its theme is the diversity of religious practices, political institutions, and economic arrangements that characterized the English empire in America.
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