New Worlds For All

“New Worlds for All”

• europeans colonized a “new world” in north america
  • extracted resources
  • eventually made new “neo-european” colonial societies
• columbian exchange and colonialism transformed north america
  • especially with trade and diseases
  • remade native environments, economies, societies, and politics
  • a “native new world”, often before significant european settlement

Spanish Colonies in North America, 1530 - 1625

• a few permanent outposts north of Mexico
• small, isolated from centers of power

Europe Invades North America, Late 16th Century

• spains rival emerge, mid-late 1500s
• first, resource extraction
  • fishing/whaling
  • trade with native people
  • piracy against spain
• later, settler colonialism
  • gradual rise of permanent european settlements
  • seizing native land, displacing native people