Compare The Motives Behind The Colonization Efforts Of – Flashcards

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.