Differences Between England French And British North American Colonies

The English Dutch and French rushed to establish settlements and outposts in the New World so as to compete with Spain and Portugal. England, France, and the Dutch Republic vied to become the leading mercantile and slave-trading powers. Northwestern populations quickly grew. Because Spain and Portugal had already claimed most of South America, other colonizers had to take ‘less hospitable’ places, like the Caribbean and North America. Sweden and Denmark enriched investors by importing fish, furs, tobacco, and precious metals. British, french, dutch, and danish companies also traded slaves. The Europeans created whole new communities across the atlantic. By the 1640s the British North American colonies had more than 50 thousand people, 1,000