History 2301E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Toleration, Praying Town, New Netherland
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How did english colonies differ from other north american empires (new france, new. Forced to work on ranches, gold/silver mines, sugar plantations. Designed to extract mineral wealth and to use native american laborers to do so. Did not offer land to new migrants. At 1600, 5% spanish descent, 95% native america or african. At 1700, 4,000 spanish in new spain; 250,000 in british mainland america. Wanted the indians to abandon hunting and gathering techniques to become farmers. Wanted indian men to be more like european men. Indian women were the farmers, so when spain told the men to farm is what like being told to be like women. Offers an alternate model of the fur trade. Men and women came (focused on fur trade) Did not intermarry (women came with men) Fur traders did not want many french settlers. Protestants prohibited from going to new france (wanted it to be catholic)