As native populations migrated and settled across North America, they developed complex societies that adapted to and transformed the environments they encountered.
Contact among Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans resulted in the “Colombian Exchange,” which significantly altered the societies, cultures, and economies on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean.
Technology, global trade, democracy, joint-stock companies, and the enclosure movement transformed British Mercantilism into a new global market system that will become known as Capitalism.