Jamestown Rediscovery Argumentative Essay

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Colonization
American InterContinental University
HUMA215 -1403B - 21
Prepared for: Dr. Patricia Smith
Kendra Wall
August 16, 2014

Colonization is a transformation of a certain area or community or a transformation to a community. The first known use of colonization was in 1766. In 1766 five Philadelphia merchant, made a proposal the colonization of West. The five Philadelphia merchants (Bayton, Wharton, and Morgan, Governor Franklin of New Jersey, his father Sir William Johnson, and others) formed a company to build the colony by Wisconsin, Mississippi, Ohio, and Wabash rivers. The motivation for colonization’s result in many beneficial factors. One factor is they wanted to earn more money. During the colonization there weren’t many jobs in England and they had many problems with the land it was very expensive to
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