Where You Can Find Information about Feudalism in the Americas in Our Textbook

 

Where to Find Information in Our Textbook

Colonizers from four nation-states try to establish feudalism in North or South America. Of these, the Spanish are most successful.

 

English colonizers try to establish feudalism in three colonies and take over a fourth colony that already has large landholdings.

Nation-State Colonizing in the New World

Term(s) in the Chapter

Chapter #

Heading to Look for within that Chapter

England (the English)1

proprietor

2

Carolinas

proprietor

2

The Proprietary Colony of Maryland

proprietor and patroonships

2

New York and New Jersey (after the English take over the Dutch colony)

quitrents

3

William Penn’s “Holly Experiment”2

France (the French)

seigniory or seigniories

2

New France

Spain (the Spanish)

encomienda

1

Forced Labor Systems

 

 

2

Settlement of New Mexico

The Netherlands (the Dutch)

patron, patroonship

2

New Netherland (on initial settlement)

2

New York and New Jersey (on what happens when the English Duke of York takes them over)

1 After about 1700, the new name of the nation is Great Britain. The new name for the citizens is the British.

2 The 4th edition has some additional words that clarify how the word quitrent is a term about feudalism. The 4th edition has an addition following the words "landowners would pay annual quitrents." The addition is:
"To maintain a constant income from the colony, landowners would pay annual quitrents, or fees paid on land based on the number of acres. Quitrents were a holdover from the feudal system and replaced labor obligations to the feudal lord."]

 

 

 

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