Compare the motives behind the colonization efforts of the Spanish, French, English, and Dutch; and explain how and why colonies established by these nations differed.

Motives of Exploration: Dutch

Interests: East Indies, New World, and Brazil sugar plantations. Motives: Fur trade, Northwest passage, and piracy Settlement: small and based in fur trade. consisted primarily of traders and merchants. Company-run by the Dutch West-Indies Company. Obsessed with yearly profit, poor Native relations.

Motives of Exploration: Spanish

Motives: Gold, Glory, God Settlements: Their empire was a tight-knit, closely supervised, source of wealth. Soldiers, merchants, and padres were main colonists. Natives were subjects of sovereign-- thus fusion of cultures.

What was the effect of Protestant Reformation?

As the Protestant Reformation spread, the split between Catholics and Protestants heightened tensions among European countries. Rivalries developed, and European nations competed for control of lands in North America.

Motives of Exploration: French

Entered race late, 1608. Motives: Profit, national glory, spreading faith, Northwest passage to the Orient, Piracy of Spanish treasure ships. Settlements: Fishermen, fur traders, trappers, did business with natives and intermarried. Colonists were primarily soldiers, traders, trappers, and priests.

French colonist were called?

French colonist were called coureurs de bois, French for "runners of the woods."

Motives of Exploration: English

Interest: Profit, national glory, spreading Protestant faith, Northwest passage, piracy, religious sanctuary. Settlements: women and children as well as men, based on farming and trading, expansive, not always good relations with Natives.

Because of the rich profits made from furs, the French and Dutch valued American Indians as trading partners.

The French and Dutch made alliances, or agreements, with Indian nations.

Differences Between English and others

Gov contributed much to colonies. Most colonies were single males, not families. Colonies founded for financial reasons and national glory, not for the interest of the colonists. Gov were centralized, with little popular support.

England's first attempt at a colony on Roanoke ended in failure. The king of England passed a charter.

In 1606, a wealthy group in England, the Virginia Company of London, received a charter, or document that grants rights, from King James I to found an American colony. In

What is the House of Burgesses?

The House of Burgesses was the first representative government in the colonies.

Virginia Company of London established voters to elect representatives to make laws.

This marked the start of representative government in North America, or government

Magna Carta

a document constituting a fundamental guarantee of rights and privileges.

Virginia Company settlers chose to Jamestown in 1607

because it was safe from Spanish ships.

Martin Luther, the German monk

led challenges against Catholic Church practices.

Europeans wanted to find a waterway through or around North America called

northwest passage.

Jamestown was important to the Virginia company because

the men could marry the women who came to the New World.

French colonist in North America were mostly interested in

trading, trapping, and trading.