APUSH spanish, french, english, and dutch colonies

Spanish (Santa Fe,1609)

• Economic Goals & Practices

  • Gold and Silver

  • Encomienda system

  • Crops and Hides

  • Wealth goes to the crown

• Political

  • Control by the Crown

  • Viceroys report to the crown

  • Lords given land

• Social

  • Caste system

    • 1. Peninsulares

    • 2. Creoles and Mestizos

    • 3. Indians and African Americans

  • Few women

    • Meant making babies with the natives and AA’s

  • Catholicism

• Inclusion or Exclusion?

  • Inclusion of Natives in society

French (Quebec, 1608)

• Economic Goals & Practices

  • Fur trade

    • Waterways

    • Beavers

    • Fish and Whale

  • Sugar plantations in the West Indies

• Political

  • Ally with NAI

  • Catholic imperial policy

• Social

  • Catholic only

  • Intermarriage with the NAI

  • Few French immigrants

• Inclusion or Exclusion?

  • Inclusion of Natives in society

English (Jamestown,1607)

• Economic Goals & Practices

  • Cash Crops

  • Agriculture

  • Fishing

  • Timber

  • Trade

    • Including the slave trade

• Political

  • Royal/Charter colonies

  • House of Burgesses

  • Colonial assemblies

  • NE

    • Religious dictates

• Social

  • Lots of immigrants

    • Indentured servants

    • Families

    • Region varied by colony

• Inclusion or Exclusion?

  • Exclusion of Natives in society

Dutch (New Amsterdam,1624)

• Economic Goals & Practices

  • Dutch East India Company

    • Trading outpost

• Political

  • Control by the Crown

  • Freedom of the press

  • Religious

  • Recognize NAI sovereignty

• Social

  • Women had more freedom

  • Not many immigrants came

• Inclusion or Exclusion?

  • Inclusion but hard to say because so little immigrants came