The ColoniesEngland, France,

Spain, Portugal and Netherlands (Dutch)

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

Treaty of Tordesilhas 1494

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

Dutch