Examples of settlement in the following topics:
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- Its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban areas, in which volunteer middle-class "settlement workers" would live, hoping to share knowledge and culture with and alleviate the poverty of their low-income neighbors.
- In the U.S., by 1913 there were 413 settlements in 32 states.
- Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, founded in 1894, Henry Street Settlement, founded in 1893, and University Settlement House, founded in 1886, and the oldest in the United States were important sites for social reform.
- United Neighborhood Houses of New York is the federation of 35 settlement houses in New York City.
- These and other settlement houses inspired the establishment of settlement schools to serve isolated rural communities in Appalachia.
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- The United States began continental expansion immediately after the Constitution of 1789 through war, treaty, land deals, and settlement.
- Control and settlement of the North American territories was a centuries-long contest that affected Britain, Spain, France, and, from 1776, the United States.
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- The Albemarle Settlements, which preceded the royal charter by 10 years, came to be known in Virginia as "Rogues' Harbor."
- The Charles Town settlement developed more rapidly than the Albemarle and Cape Fear settlements due to the advantages of a natural harbor, and it quickly developed trade with the West Indies.
- As the settlement around Charles Town grew, it began to produce livestock for export to the West Indies.
- The Charleston settlement was the principal seat of government for the entire province.
- From that time until 1708, the northern and southern settlements remained under one government.
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- In the earliest days of European settlement of the Atlantic coast, from about 1600 to 1680, the "frontier" was essentially any part of the forested interior of the continent beyond the fringe of existing settlements along the coast.
- English, French, Spanish, and Dutch patterns of expansion and settlement differed widely.
- The typical English settlements were quite compact and small, typically under a square mile.
- The Royal Proclamation of 1763 prohibited the North American colonists from establishing or maintaining settlements west of a line running down the crest of the Appalachian Mountains.
- The other intention of the proclamation was to concentrate colonial settlements on the seaboard, where they could be active participants in the British mercantile system.
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- In 1578, he reached the shores of Greenland and made an unsuccessful attempt at founding a settlement in Frobisher Bay.
- Proprietors were appointed to found and govern settlements under mercantile charters granted to joint stock companies.
- The Northern Plymouth settlement in Maine faltered and was abandoned.
- However, the London Virginia Company created the first successful English overseas settlements at Jamestown in 1607.
- The location of the Jamestown Settlement ("J") is shown just south of the overlapping area, 60 miles from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay.
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- The government made western settlement possible by clearing, guarding, surveying and managing the land.
- Indian resistance, sectionalism and racism forced some pauses in the process of westward settlement.
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- Cartier attempted to create the first permanent European settlement in North America at Cap-Rouge (Quebec City) in 1541 with 400 settlers, but the settlement was abandoned the next year after bad weather and native attacks.
- Samuel de Champlain began the first permanent settlement of New France and Quebec City in present-day Canada and created a prosperous trade with the Native Americans for beaver pelts and other animal hides.
- Settlements in present-day Florida and Georgia created tension with Spanish conquistadors, who after conquering Caribbean lands would begin to expand northwards in search of new territory.
- The settlement was moved to Port Royal following year.
- A major French settlement lay on the island of Hispaniola, where France established the colony of Saint-Domingue on the western third of the island in 1664.
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- Established in 1607, Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in the American colonies.
- Jamestown was a settlement in the Colony of Virginia established by the Virginia Company of London in 1607.
- Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in what is now the United States, following several earlier failed attempts.
- Virginia Indians had already established settlements long before the English settlers arrived, and there were an estimated 14,000 natives in the region.
- Analyze and discuss the founding and growth of the Jamestown settlement.
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- The remains of a Norse settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada, are dated to around the year 1000.
- Continental North American settlements were small and did not develop into permanent colonies.
- According to the Sagas of Icelanders, Leif was the son of Erik the Red, who was the founder of the first Norse settlement in Greenland.
- The colony in Greenland began to decline in the 14th century, and it is probable that the settlements were defunct by the late 15th century.
- Columbus had been granted authority by the Spanish monarchy to claim land for Spain, begin a settlement, trade for valuable goods or gold, and explore.
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- Colonial settlement in the Ohio Country became a primary cause of the French and Indian War.
- The issue of settlement in the region is considered to have been a primary cause of the French and Indian War and a contributing factor to the American Revolutionary War.
- The Delawares were migrating because of the expansion of European colonial settlement in eastern Pennsylvania.
- Despite its acquisition by Great Britain, the area remained officially closed to white settlement by the Proclamation of 1763, which arose in part of the British desire to regain peaceful relations with the Shawnee and other tribes in the region.