<span>Early colonists in New Netherland were most interested in "trade" and mercantilism with either the Netherlands themselves or other European countries. </span><span />
He was the first King of Bohemia to become Holy Roman Emperor. He was a member of the House of Luxembourg from his father's side and the Czech House of Přemyslid
This discovery of gold lead directly to the California Gold Rush.
Thanks to the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill by James Marshall, California became flooded with individuals looking to make it rich by finding gold. Roughly 300,000 citizens from across the country came to settle in California. This greatly increased the size of California's population, eventually allowing it to join the US as a state rather than a territory.
North American white racial ideologies affected their society drastically, mostly regarding the ethnical groups of the indigenous, the black, the latin americans in very negative ways.
As colonization spread From 1500 to 1830, in North America at first many Europeans made treaties with the natives, but because of their view of superiority they often did not respect the treaties. This led to bloodshed in almost all of the situations.
North America white supremacy led to a hierarchical structure; both placed indigenous people, slave or free, at the bottom, mixed blood next and then full Europeans at the top. Altough some ethnic groups were different culturally, for example Latin American people often intermarried. In North America slaves often completely lost their original identity, while in Central America they were able to keep some cultural identity, which eventually had strong impact over Latin American culture.
The superiority of the whites was not an ideology that applied to natives only, rather it can be seen in the rapid growth of slavery. In North America the slave trade kept growing as, slaves became an integral part of industry and farming. The government never really at this centuries posed any legislature to erradicate this practices, it was until the late 1800's and early 1900's that social change was beginning to incorporate social demands from this marginated groups.
