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."]