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- 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
