cultural exchange the indians benefited the french because they could prepare beaver skins for sale at market and the french benefited the indians by

cultural exchange the indians benefited

the french because they could prepare

beaver skins for sale at market and the

french benefited the indians by

introducing iron cookware and

manufactured claw all right now let's

look at the dutch and their colonial

goals in 1609 the dutch established a

fur trading center on the hudson river

which is in present-day new york and

their goals for colonizing were mainly

economic like the french now the dutch

were altogether protestant but unlike

the spanish they showed very little

interest in converting the natives to

christianity by 1624 they had

established new amsterdam which

facilitated and advanced their economic

goals and this became a hub of trade

that attracted large populations of

traders and merchants and fishermen and

farmers okay now we need to turn our

attention to the british and their

colonial project and arguably it's the

british and their colonial goals that

are the most relevant for united states

history so first let's talk about the

motivations for british colonization and

then we'll compare the different kinds

of colonies that they set up on the

eastern coast of north america now

economically during this period britain

was to put it mildly a hot mess the

colombian exchange was changing the

economy wars with france and the

conquest of ireland were costing them a

fortune and as a result of all that

inflation began to take hold of the

british economy if you don't know what

inflation is it just means that prices

were rising and that means their money

was worthless it just wouldn't buy as

much and this was particularly grievous

to the noble class who could see their

wealth vanishing before their eyes

additionally the lower classes were

enduring hardship as well the land which

had always been available to them for

farming was rapidly disappearing due to

the enclosure movement so take all of