- strongly influenced by Roman Catholic Church

- strict rules from Spanish government

- position was based on birth, education, income

- came for gold/economic opportunity

- Roman Catholic missionaries converted by force

- governors appointed by king

- no experience with democracy

- king is in total control

- king pays for expeditions

- found gold and silver and exploited the natives

- had African slaves

- church became source of money

-not controlled as much by church

-government paid people to leave France and go to New World

-Catholic

-if you were French Huguenots (protestants) you had to go to the English colonies

-Roman Catholic missionaries did not force conversion

-no experience with democracy

-governors are appointed by king

-king held strict control over laws

-didn't have slavery

-based on fur trapping and exporting

-worked with native tribes

-came into conflict with English over hunting grounds

-followed mercantilist policy (export more then you import)

-settled for religious purposes

-wanted a egalitarian (equal) society

-class distinctions develop later

-church (prot. Christian) was an important role in the development of towns and schools

-very little religious tolerance

-Puritans wanted to "purify" all Catholic elements out of Anglican (protestant) Church

-wanted to be "city on the hill"

-exiled dissenters like Roger Williams who went to Rhode Island

-town meeting, where people could practice democracy

-subsistence (local) farming

-most jobs have something to do with the sea

-very little slavery (lack of agriculture)

-followed mercantilist policy

-cities along the coast

-settled for religious and economic purposes

-class distinctions based on wealth and income

-more religious diversity and tolerance

-protestants, quakers, catholics

-democratic colonial assemblies

-based on export of food

-farming and hunting where conditions allowed

-trade centers (NYC, Philadelphia)

-settled for economic purposes

-based on wealth and income

-king gave large land grants to aristocrats

-Plantation System with indentured servants and slaves

-religion not as important

-the Great Awakening focused more attention on religion

-the Church of England (Anglican) was the main church

-in Virginia, The House of Burgesses, first elected representative body in the New World

-cash crops, such as tobacco, rice, indigo

-slave labor, to the Carolinas from Barbados

-cotton becomes cash crop later on