PL HELP ME WITH THIS IT DUE TODAY 1. How does our unit essential question (How did issues of power, wealth, and morality influence exploration and colonization in North America?) connect to desires for God, Gold, and Glory?

2. How could exploration of a new land bring power to a person? To a nation?
3. Why might nations feel compelled to spread their religious traditions outside of their own borders?
4. Is the desire for gold/wealth a personal desire or a patriotic desire? Can it be both?

5. How does the desire for power and wealth connect to or conflict with the desire for morality?

How could exploration of a new land bring power to a person? To a nation?

Explanation:

The motivation for exploring new land was the lack of resources in one's home nation that sent them around the world seeking untapped resouces. The discovery of new land with provided explorers with the power to obtain these resources such as gold or animal hides, and take them back to their home nation, thus making the rich and in turn, powerful.

Colonial nations obtained power through the exploration of land by exploiting the people they colonized and the materials that their land had to offer. This power was given to them through mercantilism. Britain is a great example of that. They facilitated the slave trade, collected the cotton, tobacco, sugar, etc, and distrubted those products worldwide. As no other nation could produce what Britain was providing, the other nations became reliant on Britain for these products, ergo making them very powerful.

i thought a 14 year old should know this but

colonies   were tied to britain through trade and by the way they were governed.   trade was restricted so the colonies had to rely on britain for imported goods and supplies.   there were no banks and very little money, so colonists used barter and credit to get the things they needed.  

britain also needed money to pay for its war debts.   the king and parliament believed they had the right to tax the colonies.   they decided to require several kinds of taxes from the colonists to pay for the french and indian war.   these taxes included the stamp act, passed in 1765, which required the use of special paper bearing an embossed tax stamp for all legal documents.   other laws, such as the townsend acts, passed in 1767

this mainly outraged the colonies and created what we know as today as the american revolutionary war