Social

● Chattel slavery= slaves=property

● 3 colonies- indigenous NA, plantations, and neo-Europes (replica of the Old World)

Political
● House of Burgess- representative govt (1619)
○ Early colonial form of democracy but still ruled by Europe

Interaction with Environment

● France fur trade

Culture
● Syphilis → Old World
● New England Puritans (predestinations)

Economics
● Encomiendas- conquistadors rewarded tribute in labor and goods from Indian communities
● Spain spent all of their silver lololol
● English outwork- created a monopoly for textile merchants by govt setting low wages
● Mercantilism- system of state-assisting manufacturing and trade
● sugar= Brazil; tobacco= Americas
● Headright system- land to anyone who paid money for immigrant slaves
● 1660- tobacco decline
● Dutch West India Company failed bc they’re racists so they switched to sugar