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The 17th century development of New England and Virginia, two dramatically different English settlements, is the origin of the collision of values, cultures and economies that have prevailed in the North and South throughout the American story.
Key Events

Virginia and New England in the 1600s.

Maps

Colonial settlement in the 1600s, with a close-up of New England to Virginia.

Transcript

The full transcript and video.

Webography

Links to sites with primary and secondary source materials related to the topics of this program.


  
American history often focuses on the settlement of the thirteen British colonies that join together as the United States. But while the British colonists were settling North America, other European nations were also colonizing North America and the Caribbean, and events in Europe were impacting colonization.

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