- Spanish efforts to extract wealth from the land led them to develop institutions based on subjugating native populations, converting them to Christianity, and incorporating them, along with enslaved and free Africans, into Spanish colonial society (ex. mission system, encomienda system, casta system) (focused on CONQUEST and SUBJUGATION)
- French and Dutch colonial efforts involved relatively few Europeans and relied on trade alliances and intermarriage with Natives to build economic and diplomatic relationships and acquire furs and other products for export to Europe. (focused on TRADE and PARTNERSHIP)
- English colonization efforts attracted a comparatively large number of male and female British migrants, as well as other European migrants, all of whom sought social mobility, economic prosperity, religious freedom, and improved living conditions. These colonists focused on agriculture and settled on land taken from Native Americans, from whom they lived separately (focused on NEW LIFE and EXPULSION)