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What is one reason why European explorers wanted to settle in North America?

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Resources and economic opportunity

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One reason European explorers wanted to settle North America was to find wealth or gold. An easy way to remember the reasons for colonization is the three G's. God, Gold, Glory, most people that settled America went for one or more of those three reasons.

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