Six.
Following worldwide experiment combination three distinct economic systems
and civilizations Spanish French and English struggled for supremacy Spain
and Portugal were the first to colonize theirs was a feudal economy
and as it was Asians strongly influenced by the church in America France expanded
westward with isolated posts and mission New France was but journalistic
and dependent on the perpetrator engenders stablish contact colonies on the Mid
Atlantic coast with people economically self-reliant an individualistic
and bearing the seed of democracy a series of military struggles resulted in the
elimination of France from the North American continent in seventeen sixty three
thirteen English colonies gained their independence by continuing the
Anglo-American tradition the acquisition of Louisiana was inevitable Spanish power
decline of the Florida has receded to the United States the people of Spanish
America proclaim their independence with American Civil the the weak hold of the
Spanish civilization on the south west
and the Caribbean Islands finally gave way under American pressure
new world colonization was started by Spain in the West Indies then on into Central
America
and southern Mexico into the mountains in rich silver mine silver in got carried by
Pak
and then by galleons to Spain to the north on the plateau arose the cattle industry
because of come stablished outposts in Florida in the way of the Spanish
settlements extended to Santa Fe.
In sixteen hundred nine
and only now after more than a century of Spanish colonization did the French
settle it could back the year before the Spanish had expanded the set of a French
post sprang up along the inland waterways in the search for beaver.
After nearly a century. The French control a vast region
but one with a sparse population.
After more than a century of Spanish colonization the English settled in Virginia
sandbars obstruct much of this coastline
that Chesapeake Bay However offered excellent harbors the larger rivers were
navigable only to the final line separating the federal coastal plain from the
higher Piedmont region to the west with the Appalachian barrier along the coast
climate
and soil were favorable the southern colonies could be nearly self-sufficient in
food stuffs tobacco was to become the big export crop grows at
first was slow English Catholic settled in Maryland Virginians migrated southward
into Carolina English French
and West Indians settled in Charleston by sixteen eighty nine the culture of the
Southern colonies was characterized by a landed aristocracy supported by tobacco
and slave labor in New England the rivers flow southward
and only a few were navigable the indented coastline offered excellent harbors the
natural resources were the fishing banks for food
and the vast virgin forests which provided lumber for ships and home.
The Rocky style severe climate
and short growing season permitted agriculture only to supply domestic needs
to that setting came the Pilgrims in sixteen. Twenty.
Soon thereafter the Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded with a rather crude
beginning but soon more settlers arrived
and built permanent dwelling.
People from Massachusetts settled the valley of the Connecticut River.
Roger Williams led settlers to Rhode Island.
The New Haven colony was extended over to Long Island.
Later the New Haven colony was combined with Connecticut.
And the Plymouth colony with Massachusetts.
New England was now substantially settled.
The houses were generally in villages conducive to active community live.
Senator around the Church of the town meeting.
The middle Atlantic region had excellent Harbor is large rivers some navigable lead
far inland. And these facilitated extensive for trade with the Indians.
Between ranges of mountains flowed Rivers flanked by Brown fertile valleys where
colonists soon were to produce weak barley apples pears.
Peaches and dairy products butter and cheese.
The Dutch settled on the Hudson River at the mouth. And at the head of navigation.
Shortly thereafter this we'd settled on the Delaware.
But their weakness invited subjugation by the Dutch under status and.
Soon the English took possession of all New Netherlands.
Then founded Pennsylvania as a Quaker colony
or negroes of these middle colonies was comparatively slow going in part to the
Manor system with its restrictions on individual enterprises.
In addition to their mainland colonies the English founded colonies in Bermuda
Barbadoes and other West Indian islands. These the.
SESSIONS were important both in naval and commercial affairs.
Thus by sixteen eighty nine Spain was well established in the south of France was
secure in Canada and claim Louisiana England was firmly planted on the Atlantic
and claimed Hudson Bay in New England shipbuilding flourished
industries not competing with the mother country were free to develop.
Fish
and whale products where the most profitable industries run the lot their production
a lot of flourished New England supplied fish rum
and ships the middle colonies flour pork flax fern status the southern
colonies tobacco Rice hives unable to fly there was extensive trade among the
colonies New England shipping interest rate sensitive New England ship rum to
Africa traded for slaves carried these to the West Indies
and exchange them for molasses sugar
and money much of the foreign trade was in triangles like this in order to balance
accounts.
However many raw materials in the money received in the West Indian trade went
directly to England to balance accounts for manufactured goods the southern
colonies because of their tobacco carried on direct barter with the mother country.
The Colonial Merchant Marine and foreign afraid were extensive
and far flung after sixteen eighty
nine for a century immigration from England with small.
Native American colonists pushed the front here back northward westward southward
to their new homes in the wilderness up the fertile river valleys to their head
waters through the mountain gaps pressing the French on the north and west
and Spanish on the south virgin.
That's of a near where the most populous of these English colonies by seven hundred
sixty three.
Now to go back the French dreamed of a vast empire in the middle the valley with
its capital at New Orleans posts and forwards were built to explode the Spanish
and the English and the south in the north west
and the French encroached on the Hudson Bay claims with outposts English
and French both claim the hinterland.
The French strengthen their position and when English regulars
and colonials under Braddock's advanced on for Duquesne they were severely degraded.
The colonies rushed new defenses during the next two years the English suffered
defeat on the northern front here.
But in seven hundred fifty eight a small English force advanced up the mark
and across Lake Ontario
and reduced forefront in next general verb succeeded in taking forth again
the following year for Niagara fell to the English.
The French were forced to withdraw on Lake Champlain looks
sailed up the St Lawrence to attack with back first world occupied the opposite
shore and bombarded the city a frontal attack below the city failed.
Finally in desperation work secretly moved his troops above the city.
Under cover of darkness look troops climb to the Plains of Abraham.
Montcalm the French general decided to attack.
After the second English volley the French line broke
and four days later back surrendered this battlefield of New France.
The following year three English and colonial forces converged on Montreal.
Which fell without resistance in accordance with the England retained all of French
Canada the eastern probably easier than from west Louisiana went to Spain
there after the English companies look forward to rapid peaceful expansion little
realizing the revolt would soon lead to the founding of the first free nation in
America.