1. COLONIALISM IN NORTH AMERICA

2. European Exploration:
Exploration between made Europeans realize the world is really BIG
= Lots of opportunities to get rich!
Europeans want markets + raw materials= race for global dominance
4 countries in the race for North America
France, England, Spain & Russia

4. Colonialism
Colonialism is when one country populates and controls land outside its own borders usually to extract wealth & resources to help build an empire

5. Mercantilism
Mercantilism was the primary system of trade used from the 16th to 18th Century.
European countries accumulated as much wealth as possible through trading with their colonies….buying basic natural resources (timber, fur, fish etc) and selling products back to the colonies
The French, Spanish & British
competed for wealth & colonies

6. British Mercantilist System

7. SPAIN Spain had colonies stretching from South America to BC
They had problems colonizing/ settling all this land, and couldn’t defend all that space from attack
Spain stayed in the South (Mexico Argentina speak Spanish!)

8. BRITAIN Britain colonizes in Eastern America
Settlers attracted by promises of land ownership, freedom, independence and opportunity
Many settlers are religious Puritans who go to America to practice their religion freely!

9. FRANCE
France established colonies along the St Lawrence River and extending inland.
Catholic Priests, called Jesuits, tried to convert the First Nations to Catholicism to build closer ties and loyalty to France (Britain is Protestant)

10. JESUITS IN NEW FRANCE

11. COLONIES Colonies were ruled and governed by the home country…
They existed to make the home country rich by supplying raw materials, which the ‘home’ country would use to manufacture goods to sell.
Colonies were not allowed to sell resources to anyone else, and had to buy manufactured goods from the ‘mother country’

12. IMPACT ON FIRST NATIONS
Trade did bring metal utensils (pots, knives) and guns which improved the FN standard of living.
Europeans unintentionally brought new diseases that devastated many First Nations communities
Smallpox went on to kill more than 50% of First Nations in North America
Europeans thought they were superior, viewed the First Nations as ‘godless savages’ that need to be civilized.
They viewed the ‘new world’ land as uninhabited and claimed ownership
They didn’t understand why the First Nations were so upset !

14. ESSENTIAL QUESTION
HOW DID EUROPEAN COLONIZATION INFLUENCE THE DEVELOPMENT OF NORTH AMERICA ?