He calls American immigration a historical accident: the United States welcomed European immigrants because it needed settlers to displace natives, farm, industrialize, and fill a large territory.
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Settler Colonialism
He calls American immigration a historical accident: the United States welcomed European immigrants because it needed settlers to displace natives, farm, industrialize, and fill a large territory.
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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 they started to chart new areas. Okay? Spain and Portugal primarily. And what they discovered was there's all this new territory in South..."
"The reason why is they needed to displace the natives. Okay? And then immigrants were then colonized. They were encouraged to go to Canada..."
"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..."
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