The resistant and age of Exploration
European explorers found new trade routes and formed what?
Overseas colonies
What did the Spain conquistadors look for?
Gold and silver
Where did France claim land from?
Canada to New Orleans
What Colony did the Dutch create
New York City
The British settled in America through what
Joint-stock companies
Who discovered America in 1492?
Christopher Columbus
Spain converted Indians to what religion
Catholic
The French focus on wealth and converting Indians to what religion
Catholicism
What did New Amsterdam create by private investors
Joint-stock company
What did some colonists come to America to escape?
poverty
What were the explorers that Spain sent called?
Conquistadors
Who did the king send to strictly govern the colonies?
Viceroys
French really needed this material
Fur
Who did the Dutch allow in there Area
Anyone so they can make more money
What did people come to America for
Religious freedom
What was introduced to many Indian cultures?
Potatoes and corn
in the 1600s or 1700s who did Spain dominate
The Central and the South america's
Why were the French friendly with the African Americans
Because they gave the French fur
What did the Dutch government grant to people
Politicial freedom
People settled in the southern colonies for what
For cash crop economies
What were the diseases introduced to Europeans?
Smallpox influenza and more
What do the Spanish usually mine
gold and silver
What was France strictly controlled by
The King and Royal Governors
How many different people were in the Dutch
Everyone could come to the Dutch because they want to make more money
What is calling a subtract harder to convert Mary or trade with whom?
Local Indians