HIST 2055 : Exam 1 History 2055
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1. 1) make a ranking of the colonial efforts of the four nations we have so far covered (the english, French, dutch, and spanish) from best to worst. Base this on whatever measure you see fit to use economic success, moral uprightness, etc. ). Live let live nola: dutch- new amsterdam new york, mercantile-trading, less impact, no militia, didn"t care about anything as long as they made profit, got conquered, spanish, one of the first european powers in the new world; 3. 1) why was there a demand for slavery at all during the colonial period: free labor, colonist needed people to work for cheap (aka free) If they can work hard in the hot caribbean you have better chance of living in north. America: back breaking work, many different jobs that a slave could do, field slave, house slave, slavery is hypocritical.
