English Colonies 1650-1750Colonies in…
• North America
• West Indies
• India/East Indies (East Indies trading CO.)
• Africa.
• Settled from Newfoundland to Georgia. Land, Tobacco, Rum, lumber, Indigo & Sugar
• We know them as the Caribbean. Barbados, Jamaica, St. Kitts, & Cayman Isles. Sugar, Molasses, & Slaves.
• Bombay, Bantam, &, Surat. Textiles(#1), Spices, & Tea
• Settled in Seirra Leone, Gold coast, Nigeria, Egypt…Slaves & Gold
English Joint-Stock Companies allowed better trade by providing more money.
Colonies in N. America•Lost colony of Roanoke,
founded1585 by Walter Raleigh. N. Carolina. Disappeared!
• Jamestown 1st permanent settlement, founded by Virginia company in 1607.
•Plymouth Colony founded in 1620 by Puritans. Reason = religious in nature
French Colonies 1650-1750Colonies in…
• North America
• West indies
• Africa
• East indies & India
• Was in Canada (New France) & St. Lawrence river valley: furs, religion, land.
• Saint-Domingue, Saint Kitts: sugar and food
• N. Africa around Senegal: trading ports of African goods
• French East India Co., Bengal: spices, goods, coffee & tea
Spanish colonies 1650-1750Colonies in…
• North America
• West indies
• Africa
• East indies & India
• Spain settled in Mexico, south & western common day U.S.A.: gold, silver & land.
• Hispaniola, Cuba, Jamaica: Sugar
• Algiers & Tripoli: trading outposts, slavery
• Philippines & Guam: porcelain, silk & spices
Religion was spread in all of these areas
Portuguese colonies 1650-1750
Colonies in…• Americas
• West indies
• Africa
• East indies & India
• Brazil and N. America: failed w/ gold and silver, brazil wood (dye and wood), cod.
• Very little taken from this area could not compete w/ other nations
• S. Africa: trading ports & slavery
• Macau (China), Japan, and Goa: spices, silk, slaves
The Netherlands (Dutch)Colonies in…
• Americas
• West indies
• Africa
• East indies & India
• North east US: fur trade Dutch East Indie Co. (known as VOC)
• Aruba, Curacao, and Saint Maarten: sugar & slaves
• Cape town: Slaves, livestock and kicked Portuguese out, Boers
• Guam, Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan China & touched Japan: Spices and goods
IndiaWho Ruled?• Portugal 1510-1961
-Casa da Índia -Portuguese East India Company
• Britain 1613-1947 -East India Company
-Company rule in India-British Raj -British rule in Burma
• Caste system• Partition of India 1947
• Europeans (Portuguese, British, French, & Dutch manipulated rulers.
• Proxy rulers and military• Portuguese threatened
by others, Co. was not successful against joint- stock companies
• William the • Textiles vs. Spices• Battle of Plassey 1757British vs French (sepoy’s)
East Indies• Dutch 1595-1945-first expedition = 400% return• Spain 1565-1898-Philippine Islands, Guam and
the Mariana Islands, the Caroline Islands, Palau and the Federated States of Micronesia. (governed by Mexico city)
-Spanish American war led to• England early 1600’s till
around 1700• France late 1600’s till late
1700’s• Portugal 1505-late 1700’s
• original monopolies on nutmeg, mace spice, cloves and cinnamon
• non-indigenous cash crops like coffee, tea, cacao, tobacco, rubber, sugar and opium
• Religious spread.• Servitude • Saltpeter• Slaves• Bought Nagasaki