SPAIN: grew sugarcane, Native americans grew crops, prests ran religious community, used plantations, converted natives to christianity, landowners operated gold and silver mines, and trading posts
ENGLAND: ADsettlers found tabacco grew in Verginia, cash crops-rice, tabacco, sugarcane, had little interest in converting the NA, named Jamestown after the king James the first, charters allowed some freedoms, self government
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