US History › Section B · Colonial societies and the English empire › Topic B.4
The impact of colonization
By 1700 colonisation had remade North America. Unfree labour drove the plantation colonies, the Atlantic slave trade was growing fast, and Native peoples faced new goods, new weapons, new diseases and new ideas about who could own land.
In this topic
- A world of slavery and freedom
- Cash crops and the demand for labour
- Slavery in Africa and the Atlantic trade
- The Middle Passage
- New goods in Native hands
- Worked example: reading a grave
- Guns, beaver and changing power
- Disease and its aftershocks
- Worked example: two ideas of land
- A changing environment
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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