EUROPEAN Colonization in the Americas [APUSH Review Unit 2 Topic 2] Period 2: 1607-1754

1. For the Spanish, what were the primary means of extracting wealth in the Americas? (Foner p. 25-29)

• Agriculture

• Mining SIlver (big thing)

• Cash Crops

1. What was the caste system?

hierarchy system

1. Samuel de Champlain founded the first French settlement in the New World, Quebec. How was the French model for colonization different from that of the Spanish? (Foner p. 35-39)

wanted water route to america to trade in asia

french had much greater interest in trade, it was really about trade for them!

1. Both the Dutch and the French initially started exploring the Americas in the hopes of finding a sea route to the Pacific. Which famous explorer was sent by the Dutch? (Foner p. 39)

Henry Hudson

1. What were the British motives for colonization of the Americas? (Foner p. 51-84)

mainly economics, english economy changed due to columbian exchange so they wanted to economic opp

a lot of peasants

What is the enclosure movement

took land from everyone in common for money, lots of peasants