Unit 2: The Colonies (jan 1, 1607 – jan 1, 1754)

Description:

Spanish Colonies:
-Goal: extract wealth
- cash crops
- Gold and Silver
- Goal: convert natives to christianity
- Casta System
French Colonies:
- Goal: trade
- Fish and fur
- Not many french immigrants
- Intermarriage
- Ojibwe indians
Dutch Colonies:
- Goal: Fur Trade
- Didnt care Abt conversion
British Colonies:
- Goal: Economic opportunities, land, religious freedom
- Chesapeake -> Jamestown (joint stock company)
- New England
- British West indies
- Middle colonies

Basics:
- Slave labor>Native
- N Amer. religious haven
- Great Awakening
- Salutory Neglect
- Pueblo Revolt

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