CLEP U.S. History I 004: French and Dutch Colonization
U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 1 | Lesson 1.4 French and Dutch colonizers entered North America chiefly through commerce. French settlements along the St. Lawrence River and later through the Great Lakes and Mississippi system depended heavily on the fur trade. Because French populations remained comparatively small, traders and officials needed durable relationships with […]
CLEP U.S. History I 003: Spanish Conquest and Colonial Systems
U.S. History to 1877 | Chapter 1 | Lesson 1.3 Spanish expansion joined private ambition to royal and religious claims. Christopher Columbus’s voyages initiated sustained contact, but conquest was not the work of a few Europeans acting alone. Hern\’an Cortes defeated the Mexica, or Aztec, Empire with crucial assistance from Indigenous enemies of Mexica rule, […]
