Eeuu Colonial

When comparing the Spanish, the French and the British empires in North America, what one has to take into consideration are the main objectives that each empire had in mind.
The Spanish had builta series of forts along the Florida coast to protect the Gulf Stream sea lanes used by the convoys carrying wealth from their New World colonies. The French were deeply involved in the fur trade ofthe St. Lawrence River. Because neither France nor Spain was willing or able to transport large numbers of its citizens to populate these colonies, both relied on a policy of converting Indians intosubjects, and in both New Mexico and New France there was a good deal of cultural and sexual mixing between colonists and natives. These areas became «Frontiers of Inclusion».
In contrast to theSpanish and French colonies, based on the inclusion of Indian people, the English transplanted complete communities made up of families, establishing «Frontiers of Exclusion». They pushed Indians to theperiphery rather than incorporating them within colonial communities.
In 1607, a London group of investors known as the Virginia Company (a joint-stock company, with private investors) sent ships tothe more temperate latitudes of the Atlantic Coast of North America, where a hundred men built a fort they named Jamestown, in honor of the king. It became the first permanent English settlement inNorth America.
Tobacco became the chief crop of the colony. Once it became clear that tobacco was going to drive the Jamestown colony, more labor was needed. At first, indentured servants were used asthe needed labor. An indentured servant was a person who had signed a contract to work on a plantation for a number of years (generally from 5 to 7 years) in the form of a servant. After the contractended, the worker would receive a “freedom due”, that consisted of cash, clothes, tools and/or land and were able to live in the colony as free citizens. Eventually, this became a burden, since it...