What’s on this webpage:
What Is This Webpage For and What
Do the Colors Mean?
Looking at
Events Nation-by-Nation to Determine Patterns in Colonization
You can memorize history or you can understand it. In the long run, understanding history takes less time than memorizing and lasts for your lifetime—something that can’t be said for memorizing. This webpage can help you understand the interconnected issues by noticing the patterns.
Color reveals the nations in the remaining sections of this webpage, but--if you have trouble seeing colors—the names of the nations are provided as well. The colors are:
blue |
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green |
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red |
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lavender |
= The (Note:
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white |
= Spanish attempts to suppress the Protestant nation identified |
pale grey |
= German area where small princes have power, not the Spanish or other rising nation |
This is color-coded to show connections to the table
that follows. |
Look for the
interconnections between nations. Notice the roles in the
Notice where they
are and what their source of wealth is. Notice what people have a reason to risk
their lives crossing the
Nation |
Date |
Event |
German areas |
1517* |
Martin Luther, protests, declares “justification by faith” (not works), and is excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church three years later |
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1519-1521 |
Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés, conquers the Aztecs and takes their gold (Royal fifth goes to the king.) |
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1530-1533 |
Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizzaro, conquers the Incas and takes their gold |
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1560 |
Spanish Jesuits, missionary efforts increased in the |
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1565 |
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1573 |
Spanish
Franciscans, responsibility for pacification |
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1578 |
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Dutch and |
1581 |
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1582 |
Cargo of furs ( |
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1585 |
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Spanish
Armada, defeat of—shift of naval power to |
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1598 |
Spanish encomienda system (translation: charge or
commission) – They try feudalism. |
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1598 |
Edict of |
Dutch |
1600s |
Slave sales by the Dutch, with the Dutch trading for
slaves and with the |
|
1600s |
French colonial seigneuries (translation: senior lord.) –
They try feudalism. |
|
1600s |
French Jesuit missionaries |
|
1600s |
French coureurs de bois (translation: runners of
the woods) – They must trade to get the furs and therefore they make
alliances with the Indians. |
Dutch |
1602 |
United (Dutch) East India Company, with the Dutch trading
in the |
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1608 |
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1609 |
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1609 |
French aid for Hurons v. Five Nations (Iroquois) |
Dutch |
1609 |
Henry Hudson (Dutch; of |
German areas |
1618* |
Thirty Years War (German
areas), began partly over religion – The wars continue for 30 years. |
England |
1620 |
|
Dutch |
1621 |
Dutch West India Company, with the Dutch trading in the |
Dutch |
1624+ |
New |
|
1627 |
Status of “natural French” when Indians were baptized |
Dutch |
1629 |
New |
England |
1634 |
Maryland – They try to try feudalism. |
German areas |
1638* |
Thirty Years War (German areas), closed by Treaty of Westphalia which says—to simplify—that a nation-state can determine its own religion |
Dutch |
1648 |
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England |
1660s |
Carolinas– They try to try feudalism. |
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1685 |
Edict of |
How
did the Broad Trends in Europe (and Where These Europeans Went in the
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Trait |
Spanish |
French |
English |
Dutch |
Where they went? |
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Area later called |
Demographics of the colonies? |
450,000 through
mid-1600s Mainly male |
15,000 by 1700 Mainly male |
Families: > 2,000 in
early 1600s 50,000 by
mid-1600s |
Families: > 300 in early
1600s |
Demographics of the colonies? (Why would ordinary people come?) |
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Although the
initial settlers were some Protestant refugees,[1]
once the Spanish–those persecuting the Protestants—were forced out of the |
Economy of colonies? |
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Fur trade Breweries Agriculture [2] |
Large landholdings? (feudal landholdings) |
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Yes, called
patroonships [3] |
Local governance? |
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No, a Dutch administration |
Missionary effort? |
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¾ |
Mix with
the native population, including intermarriage? |
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¾ |
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Last Updated: |
2018 |
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[1] This and the remaining entries in the column are from the Oxford Companion to United States History, p. 199.
[2] This and the remaining entries in the column are from the Oxford Companion to United States History, p. 199.
[3] This and the remaining entries in the column are from the Oxford Companion to United States History, p. 199.