1. Todays Big Question:
What are the similarities & differences among the Spanish, French, Dutch & British patterns of colonization in the New World?
Take Off:
Explain what was happening in Europe that encouraged people to head for the New World.

2. Motivations for Exploration
During the Renaissance, a desire for new trade routes to Asia led to an Age of Exploration:
Led by Spain & Portugal, explorers found new trade routes, colonies, & people to Christianize
Colonization in North America led to the destruction of Indian culture, permanent settlements for whites, & wealth for European nations

3. Motivation & Means of Exploration
Better ships (caravels)
Better navigation tools:
Astrolabe & sextant
Magnetic compass
Maps with longitude & latitude
Key Motivation of Explorers:
A search for new knowledge (Renaissance)
The 3 “Gs”:
GOLD: A desire for wealth, new markets for trade, a desire to escape poverty in Europe
GLORY: A desire by European kings to develop large overseas empires or for individual explorers to make a name for themselves
GOD: A desire by European Christians (Catholics) to convert people to their faith

4. This exploration led to colonies by European countries:

6. Voyages of European Exploration
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7. The Spanish Colonies in America

8. Spanish Colonies in North America

9. The 3 G’s Spanish motivations for colonization GOD GOLD GLORY
Settlements: Empire was tight-knit, closely supervised, and a source of wealth for the crown.
Soldiers, merchants, and padres were main colonists. Natives were subjects and also connected through marriages. Cultures fused together.

10. Spanish Colonies in North America
The Spanish government encouraged converting Indians & establishing missions
Motivations:
After Columbus, Spain dominated Central & South America & the SE & SW sections of North America
Spanish conquistadors explored in search of gold & silver
Missionaries converted Native Americans to Catholicism

11. Spanish Colonies in North America
Government: Royal control
Spanish colonies were funded & controlled by the monarch
Viceroys were sent to the colonies to serve as governors
Economy: Desire for wealth
Used Indian & African slave labor to mine gold & silver
Built encomiendas (plantations) to farm cash crops

12. The French Colonies in America

13. French Colonies in North America

14. French Colonies in North America
Like Spain, the French govn’t encouraged converting Indians & establishing missions
Motivations:
After Champlain’s attempt to find a NW passage through Canada, he founded Quebec
The “French crescent” included Canada, the Mississippi River, & New Orleans
Missionaries converted Native Americans to Catholicism

15. French Colonies in North America
Government: Royal control
The French colonies were strictly controlled by royal governors
Economy: Desire for fur trade
Most French colonists profited from the fur trade, small-scale farming, or lumbering
Society: Friendly with Indians
Because the French needed furs, they were the most friendly with the local Native Americans

16. Dutch Colonies in North America

17. Dutch Colonies in North America
Motivations:
The Dutch established New Amsterdam as a trade center
Political, Economic, Social:
To attract settlers, the gov’t allowed anyone to immigrate
As a result, New Amsterdam was one of the most diverse colonies in North America
We’ll mention Peter Stuyvesant and the British takeover of the Dutch colonies during the discussion of the British Middle Colonies.

18. The English Colonies in America

19. The English Colonies
In the 1600s, English settlers arrived in North America
English colonization differed from Spanish & French because the English gov’t had no desire to create a centralized empire in the New World
Different motivations by English settlers led to different types of colonies

20. Migrating to the English Colonies
17th century England faced major social changes:
The most significantly was a boom in population; Competition for land, food, jobs led to a large mobile population (vagrants?)
People had choices: could move to cities, Ireland, Netherlands, or America (but this was most expensive & dangerous)

21. British Colonies in North America

22. British Colonies in North America
Motivations: Many different reasons
Economic: Escape poverty or gain wealth from cash crop farming
Religious: For religious freedom & to escape religious persecution
Political: Fear during the English Civil War & Glorious Revolution
As a result, the British colonies were very different from each other & were never very unified

23. British Colonies in North America
Government:
The colonies differed from French & Spanish because the British gov’t had no desire to create a centralized empire in America
Britain developed a policy called salutary neglect in which the colonists could create local laws & taxes in their colonial assemblies
Royal governors were sent by the king, but they had little power

24. British Colonies in North America
New England colonies, like Massachusetts, were closely connected by religion & families & were mostly subsistence farmers who had little desire to make money
Unlike the Spanish & French, the British colonists never made sweeping attempts to convert, marry, or trade with local Native Americans, although conflicts over land were common
Economy & Society:
The societies & economies of the British colonies were dependent upon the reasons people settled
Southern colonies, like Virginia, had cash crop economies, large gaps between rich & poor farmers, & slave labor

25. The Spanish & French adopted Frontiers of Inclusion while the British used Frontiers of Exclusion
By the early 1600s, Spain, England, & France had large territorial claims in North America (but these colonies were not heavily populated, especially in Spanish & French claims)
These colonial claims came largely at the expense of the Native Americans already living there

26. Homework In your bins find and take one of the immigrant profiles.
You must identify where this person settled in the New World based on their reason for immigrating
You are to write a letter to someone back “home” in Europe identifying your experience and using examples from what you have learned today to convince that person to move to the New World
This activity would work well with student pairs or groups of three