What were the features of the colonization of North America?

Colonization of North America began later than colonization, for example. Mesoamerica. If on the islands of the Caribbean the first strongholds of Europeans arose at the turn of the 15th and 16th centuries, then in North America the first English colony appeared around 1590, but quickly disappeared due to unclear reasons and colonization began again by Puritans from England in 1620.

Secondly, in the 17th century, private initiative prevailed, and not the state’s course towards the development of new territories, like the Spaniards under Charles V.

Thirdly, the colonization was carried out mainly by the British, in the second place were the French, but by the end of the 18th century they had lost Louisiana and Quebec. The role of the Spaniards was small and mainly in the southern regions, from California to Florida. The colonists were Protestants, not Catholics.

Another feature was the relationship with the local population, the Indians were disposed of rather brutally, and in South America mestizos prevailed, not whites.