history test

• 1740 spanish colonies

  • few spanish settlers
  • reluctant to allow people in of other nations/religons (catholic)
  • established empire partly to spread catholicism
• 1740 french colonies

  • controlled interior of america
  • supply with raw materials
  • furs + fish
  • good relationship with native americans therefore
  • no more than 60,000 settlers
  • small settlements - forts
  • little religious tolerance
  • under divine right absolutist monarchy
  • state had close control over colonies - high taxes and conscription
• 1740 british colonies

  • thirteen colonies (new england, middle, southern)
  • farming eg. tobbaco
  • 1 million settlers and growing rapidly
  • between 1700-1763 400,000 people came
  • religous tolerance (as more diversity )
  • many settlers had gone to new world to escape religous persecution so feared france and spain
  • more liberal and less powerful central government
  • differences meant british settlers did not want to fall under french rule