New Spain
The civilizations conquered by the Spanish
What are the Incas and the Aztecs?
French main motivation for colonizing.
What is the fur trade?
These three factors limited the extent of Dutch colonization.
Intellectual freedom, religious toleration, and a high standard of living.
Three types of colonies in the Americas.
What are tribute colonies, plantation colonies, and neo-European colonies?
The territory the Spanish empire covered included.
What are Mexico, Central America, the southwest United States, and Florida?
The territory controlled by the French
What are the St Lawrence River, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and eventually Great Lakes regions?
The territory the Dutch colonized.
Mid Atlantic region, from Delmarva peninsula to cape cod
Document that forms a colony that is owned by a singular person or family who could make the laws.
Proprietary charter
The Spanish motivation for colonization besides extracting wealth.
What is spreading Christianity?
The ways that the French befriend native groups for the fur trade
What are military alliances and intermarriage?
The island that the Dutch "bought" for $24
Manhattan
Document that forms a colony that is under the direct control of the King, often through a royal representative
What is a royal charter?
The relationship between the Aztecs and Spain in which the more powerful Spanish nation extracted resources like silver, gold, and indigo as a token of submission is known as _____ colonies.
What are tribute colonies?
The native groups that the French forged alliances with.
What are the Hurons and Algonquians?
The company the Dutch government chartered to set up New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island as the colony's capital.
the West India Company
Document that forms a colony under the control of some form of joint stock company which has monopoly over a trade in a region.
What is a corporate charter?
The Spanish form of government in the New World in which a province was headed by a royal representative. Spain had one in Mexico and in Peru.
What are viceroyalties?
The french catholic missionaries who attempted to convert natives
What are Jesuit priests?
The English mariner the Dutch hired to find a route to the East Indies who sailed up the Hudson River.
Who is Henry Hudson?
A corporation that is formed when many merchants pool their money together to fund colonial ventures in order to share profit for minimal risk
What is a joint stock company?