American Colonies
The American Colonies were colonized and settled by various European counties in the Era of 1400-1600 such as England, France, Spain, Portugal, and Netherlands . Several reasons other than exploration drove people across the Atlantic.
Faith
- Pogroms and Persecutions of different sects of faith escaping overarching tryannical governments
- The Refromation and Counter-Refromation
- The Thirty-Years War
Economics
- The Collapse of the European Craft and Trade Guilds
- Merchantilistic Trade Policies
Politics
- Bourbon and Hapsburg Wars of Sucession
- The English Civil War
- The Glorious Revolution
The Twenty-one American Colonies
- Virgina (1607)
- Massachusetts (1620)
- Rhode Island (1639)
- Connecticut (1636)
- New Hampshire (aka: New Sweden 1679)
- New York (1669)
- New Jersey (1702)
- Pennsylvania (1681)
- Delaware (1704)
- Maryland (1632)
- South Carolina (1660)
- North Carolina (1712)
- Gerogia (1733)
- Watauga (Tenessee, almost independant nation, 1723)
- Vermont (French independant nation, 1724)
- West Florida (1755)
- Five Canadian Provinces (1763)
Native Tribes of the Northern Americas
- Creek
- Cherokee
- Cree
- Algonquin
- Sennca
- Mohican
- Mohawk
- Deleware
- and many others
History
Exploration Before Columbus (0 AD - 1492 AD)
- Shabaka - an explorer from Western Africa
- Lannibol - traveled from the Canaries to the Gulf Stream
- Taharka - discovered St. Helena
- Nefalar - Desertas and selvagens
- Songhayan - Maderia
- Mali-Akan - Porto Santo
- Evidence of Roman exploration as well
- Celtic Exploration - 385 AD - 1190 AD
After Columbus (1492 AD - 1688 AD)
English, French, and Dutch pioneers capitalized on the unexplored Americas in the years of the late 1400s to the 1600s.
English
Settlers, farmers, tradesmen. Commercial Trade Companies- Giovanni Caboto - North America Land Claims (1497)
- Walter Raleigh- Roanoke Island (1587 failed)
- Henry Hudson - Northwest Trading Company (1610)
French
Adventurers, soilders, and traders, Imperial Governence, Privateers and plantations- Jaques Cartier - Claimed New France (1534)
- Samuel de Champlain - Founded Quebec (1608)
Dutch
Familes and communities, autonomy and salutary neglect- Peter Minuit - Dutch West India Company (1621)
- Peter Stuyvesant - Govener of Caribbean Isles (1643)
Founding Date
1492 - 1688
Type
Geopolitical, Colony
Alternative Names
The Colonies
Demonym
Colonists / Americans
Government System
Monarchy, Constitutional
Power Structure
Dependent territory
Economic System
Mixed economy
Major Exports
Corn, tobacco, sugar, wood, coffee
Related Ethnicities
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