Summary: The Unfinished Nation
Chpt. 2
The Unfinished Nation
The English colonization of North America was the beginning of a new world, a world that brought people from different continents, cultures, and religious backgrounds together. This new world was populated by Native American tribes, colonists, explorers, and traders from Spain, France, and the Netherlands. Of course all these different cultures could not agree on everything, which eventually lead to more colonies forming with many different bylaws. Most of these colonies had little success in the early years of their settlement due to disease and malnutrition. The Europeans soon realized the knowledge received from the Native people would be a major factor in the survival of their newly structured communities. …show more content…
They had most of their society in place before they turned to free labor, giving them the foundation needed to grow and create a prosperous agricultural economy. Virginia learned from the mistakes made by Caribbean and solidified the system of slavery . Now that the English found out how lucrative sugar was, they wasted no time in bringing over more and more slaves. Sugarcane was a very labor intensive crop, so it required more slaves than had ever been used before. Since the English's economy was only as strong as there workforce, they started expanding rapidly. By the seventeenth century there were four times as many black slaves as there was white …show more content…
The Spanish civilization was much more prosperous than most of the English settlements, acquiring over a million citizens in their empire by the seventeenth century. New Mexico was the most successful of the outposts built and was still expanding, it had a population of over 10,000 non Indian residents. Once Spain realized other nations were beginning to settle in California they also started creating outposts of the empire further north. In the 1760 the began building trading communities along the Pacific coast. As the Spanish moved into California they spread disease throughout that killed many of the natives. The Spanish also wanted to convert the remaining Natives to Catholicism and make them become laborers to build a prosperous agricultural
The Unfinished Nation
The English colonization of North America was the beginning of a new world, a world that brought people from different continents, cultures, and religious backgrounds together. This new world was populated by Native American tribes, colonists, explorers, and traders from Spain, France, and the Netherlands. Of course all these different cultures could not agree on everything, which eventually lead to more colonies forming with many different bylaws. Most of these colonies had little success in the early years of their settlement due to disease and malnutrition. The Europeans soon realized the knowledge received from the Native people would be a major factor in the survival of their newly structured communities. …show more content…
They had most of their society in place before they turned to free labor, giving them the foundation needed to grow and create a prosperous agricultural economy. Virginia learned from the mistakes made by Caribbean and solidified the system of slavery . Now that the English found out how lucrative sugar was, they wasted no time in bringing over more and more slaves. Sugarcane was a very labor intensive crop, so it required more slaves than had ever been used before. Since the English's economy was only as strong as there workforce, they started expanding rapidly. By the seventeenth century there were four times as many black slaves as there was white …show more content…
The Spanish civilization was much more prosperous than most of the English settlements, acquiring over a million citizens in their empire by the seventeenth century. New Mexico was the most successful of the outposts built and was still expanding, it had a population of over 10,000 non Indian residents. Once Spain realized other nations were beginning to settle in California they also started creating outposts of the empire further north. In the 1760 the began building trading communities along the Pacific coast. As the Spanish moved into California they spread disease throughout that killed many of the natives. The Spanish also wanted to convert the remaining Natives to Catholicism and make them become laborers to build a prosperous agricultural