He explains British success in North America as unusually bottom-up and settler-driven, especially through Jamestown persistence and Boston Puritan family settlement.
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He explains British success in North America as unusually bottom-up and settler-driven, especially through Jamestown persistence and Boston Puritan family settlement.
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"So there are three major nations that are trying to colonize North America. You have the French. And what they will do is they..."
"What makes Boston unique at this stage in North American history is that it is established by a company, the Massachusetts Bay Company, that..."
"...a very powerful nation. It went from a patchwork of 13 British colonies to become one of the global superpowers, right? And so this..."
"...then move capital, their wealth, to England or one of the British colonies for safekeeping, okay? So that's a source of English power. Second..."
"...the British and the Americans agree that Canada will stay a British colony. But, again, because of Manifest Destiny, we can expect America to..."
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