APUSH: Difference Among the European Colonizers Quiz

Purpose of the Spanish colonies?

-Set up labor systems for mining ore

-Develop a group of converts for the Catholic church

-Rural poor emigrated to the New World

Economic motivation for the Spanish?

Silver & Gold

Spanish Relationship with the Natives?

Gave the natives full freedom as long as they performed their assigned task and converted to Catholicism

Purpose of the Dutch colonies?

Trade depots

Economic motivation for the Dutch?

Use natives to obtain fur and corn

Dutch relationship with the Natives?

Allies. Treated the natives well by equipping them with weapons and traded what the Natives want

Purpose of the French colonies?

-Set up forts to be used as fur centers

-Provide shelter for Native allies

-French protestants came to the New World for safety but few where allowed to emigrate home

-Catholic priests came to convert the Natives

Economic motivation for French?

Fur

French relationship with the Natives?

Failed to befriend the Natives and got involved in inter-tribal warefare

Purpose of English colonies?

-Find gold and source of Northwest Passage to Asia

-Used an outlet to remove English discontent

Economic motivation for the English?

Commodity Development (rice, tobacco, lumber, oats, sugar)

English relationship with the Natives?

Horrible

Used to divide and conquer method until the Native colony was no longer needed