Encomienda

Repartimento

Tordesillas

Mestizo

Girarendo

Encomienda

Repartimento

Tordesillas

Mestizo

Girarendo

Establishing networks of trade with the existing Native American communities

Checking the expansion of English and Spanish settlers

Plundering Native American lands in the pursuit of wealth

Spreading Christianity throughout North America

Establishing permanent settlements in Florida and Georgia

Establishing networks of trade with the existing Native American communities

Checking the expansion of English and Spanish settlers

Plundering Native American lands in the pursuit of wealth

Spreading Christianity throughout North America

Establishing permanent settlements in Florida and Georgia

Native people were to be utilized in forced slave labor to assist the development of Spanish infrastructure

Slaves were to be brought over from Africa to work the plantations of the Caribbean and the Southern parts of what is now the United States

Spanish Missionaries would be given the freedom to preach and travel where they pleased in the New World to spread Christianity to an “uncivilized people”

Every Spanish colonist was made economically and politically subject to the Spanish Crown

Those Native Americans who resisted Spanish imposition were to be dispatched with legalized ruthlessness

Native people were to be utilized in forced slave labor to assist the development of Spanish infrastructure

Slaves were to be brought over from Africa to work the plantations of the Caribbean and the Southern parts of what is now the United States

Spanish Missionaries would be given the freedom to preach and travel where they pleased in the New World to spread Christianity to an “uncivilized people”

Every Spanish colonist was made economically and politically subject to the Spanish Crown

Those Native Americans who resisted Spanish imposition were to be dispatched with legalized ruthlessness

New England shipbuilders benefitted from the protection offered by the Navigation Acts

Certain goods, such as sugar, tobacco and cotton, could only be traded with England – shrinking the market that Southern plantation owners could sell to

All goods bound for the colonies had to be processed first in England, before an import tax was applied, to protect English economic interests

Smuggling grew in usage as colonists illegally sought new markets for their goods

English and French colonies grew closer, in mutual protest to the manner in which they were being used to serve the metropole.

Shay’s Rebellion

The Whiskey Rebellion

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

Bacon’s Rebellion

The Taos Revolt

It rewarded colonists with a section of land, the size of which was based on how many individuals the arriving colonists brought with them.

It awarded one hundred and sixty acres of land to whoever agreed to live work there for at least five years.

It provided financial assistance to settlers who arrived with an established skill set.

It provided military protection to colonists on the frontier.

It established a financial reward if a colonist could prove he had killed a Native American.

London Company

British East India Company

South Sea Company

Atlantic Company

The Company of the Americas