Compare The Motives Of European Conquest To America

Motives of European conquest to America- land, trade, missionary: A series of wars began between Christians and Muslims. They were fighting for control of the area of Southwest Asia called Palestine. This area contained Christian shrines and holy places. Land: each noble ruled a piece of land and hoped to rule more. Strong rulers were able to unify nearby lands.
Purpose of the American colonies in eyes of Europeans- Mercantilism: mercantilism is guided by economic principles. Governments held that a nation¡¯s power was directly related to it¡¯s wealth. But colonial merchants wanted to make money for themselves, not for Great Britain.
Purpose of the American colonies in eyes of Europeans- mercantilism: Great Britain and its American colonies struggled to balance conflicting interests. Guided by economic principles the government held that nations¡¯ power was directly related to its wealth.
Spanish, French, Dutch Colonization- extent, motives, relations with natives, decline: Spanish- motives were land, trade, missionary which is power and wealth. Encomienda system was established in which nobility gets land with rights to use Indians as slave labor. Spanish decline was the destruction of Armada in 1588 and the colonies were gone by 1800¡¯s. French- it¡¯s motives were land and trade. Extent was St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes, Canada, and
In addition, women had few property rights and poor white men had more limited civil rights. Congress did not have executive branch. It was difficult to put it¡¯s policies into effect. The government did not have the power to impose or collect taxes, which made it very difficult to pay for the Revolution. Soldiers who had fought in the Revolution was unpaid. Because its central gov was so weak, the Confederation had trouble taking advantage of what the United States had won in the 1783 Treaty of