“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