The Slave Trade

• Europeans began to use slave labor in their colonies to grow crops, mine, etc.

• Native Americans used for a while until they started to die from disease, but Africans began to be brought to the Americas.

• The slave trade then became the main focus of Europe’s relations with Africa.

Society in the Spanish Colonies• It was a rigid social

system in the Spanish Colonies of the New World?

• What do I mean by rigid?

• There was no flexibility. If you were in born into a social class in the colonies you didn’t move up

Creoles- Spanish colonists born in America of 2 Spanish parents – wealthy merchants plantation owners

Mestizos- people of mixed parents, Spanish and Indian heritage – ranchers, farmers, merchants

Mulattos- people of the Spanish and African heritage

Peninsulares- Spanish born colonists who were born in Spain, top of the social structure– government officials

Peninsulares

Creoles

Mestizos

Mulattos

Native Americans/Black Slaves

Europeans Compete In North America

• When Spain empire grows larger in the Americas =

• It causes European countries to get =

• What will happen?

Spain wealth and power

Jealous

Religious conflict, Economic Conflict, and more Exploration

Do you remember what mercantilism is?

The Colonies existed to make the mother country wealthy and powerful.

Open up your textbooks too page 51. Let’s begin to read Asia Continues

to Beckon

Things you need to know• John Cabot

• Northwest Passage

• Henry Hudson

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How did the French treat the Native Americans compared to the Spanish?