History Strayer Notes

different european colonies

• rather than governing the societies that were already there, the europeans essentially created new societies

• these societies were created through the devastation of the native culture, plants, and animals, through introduction of european culture, plants and animals

• encouraged mercantilism, which was the ecnouragement of trade and export in order to amass gold and silver

• some colonies were agriculture based, slave based, or mining based

spain social order

• the spanish were at the top (even though they were the minority)

• spanish women had the same status as their husbands, but their freedom was very limited (they were viewed as weak and the bearers of civilization)

• mestizos were second, but they were looked down upon for being unpure and illigitimate

• at the bottom of society were the natives, labeled as indians

• they faced terrible abuse and were forced to labor in the mines

sugar colonies

• these colonies did not provide much wealth until the sugar production

• the portugese sugar colonies dominated the market for sugar until the british, spanish, dutch, and french turned their colonies into sugar-producing colonies

• sugar production was labor intensive and was most efficiently produced in mass quanities

• the labor was very harsh and unpleasant

• since there was a high demand for labor, they turned to the transatlantic slave trade

• this started a period of lots of slave trade in the atlantic reigon

colonial societies in new york, pennsylvania, and New England

• these settlers wanted to escape the european society, rather than recreate it like the other colonies

• men were given more power at the heads of their independent farms

• this gave less power to the women in these societies

• few girls attended schools, and most of the church members were women, except only men could be ministers

• there were mostly europeans in these colonies, because the natives had been wiped out from disease, escaped, or killed because of the harsh labor