Sub Concept I: Spanish, French, Dutch, and British colonizers had different economic and imperial goals involving land and labor that shaped the social and political development of their colonies as well as their relationships with native populations.
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A.) Spanish efforts to extract wealth from the land led them to develop institutions based on subjugating native populations, converting them to Christianity, and incorporating them, along with enslaved and free Africans, into the Spanish colonial society.
The Spanish incorporated the encomienda system and used Native American labor to extract precious metals …show more content…
Some were made to avoid religious persecution in England, others as a safe haven for debtors. All of them sustained themselves with agriculture and most attracted people from European nations other than Britain. They lived separate from the Native Americans and had little interaction with them other than fighting over land disputes.
Related Thematic Learning Objectives (Focus of Exam Questions)
MIG 1.0- Explain the causes of migration to colonial North America and, later the United States, and analyze immigration’s effect on US society.
WOR 1.0- Explain how cultural interaction, cooperation, competition, and conflict between empires, nations, and peoples have influenced political, economic, and social developments in North America
Key Concept 2.1: Europeans developed a variety of colonization and migration patterns, influenced by different imperial goals, cultures, and the varied North American environments where they settled, and they completed with each other and American Indians for