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European
Exploration and
Colonization
Standard 7-1.5
1. Colonies
A.
B.
After European nations explored and
found the New World, these countries
quickly wanted to conquer it for
themselves.
England, France, Spain, Portugal, and
the Netherlands created colonies in this
new land to show off their new power
and wealth.
2. Types of Colonies
A.
B.
C.
Plantation Colonies – Owned mostly by
Spanish and Portuguese, grew cash
crops such as tobacco, rice, indigo, sugar
Trading Posts – Owned mostly by French
and Dutch traded mostly in furs.
Settler Colonies – Owned mostly by
English, the purpose was to expand the
empire or to gain religious freedom.
2. Types of Colonies Cont…..
D. Asia- isolated until trade with Europe
began
 modern and militarily strong civilizations
 “equals” with European nations
 trading relationship
 European nations could build trading posts
in port cities and along coastal regions
 Created a merchant class in Asia
3. Labor
In plantation colonies, the Spanish and
Portuguese enslaved the Native
Americans, and later used African
Slaves. In British Plantation colonies
indentured servants were also used.
B. In the Trading colonies, the French and
Dutch kept a positive relationship with
the local populations
C. In the settler colonies, the British
pushed the Natives off of their land and
also used Africans as slaves.
A.
4. Labor Shortage
A.
B.
Native Americans were slaves until they
died from European diseases, because they
lacked immunity, or escaped.
The solution became the Atlantic Slave
Trade which was the biggest forced
migration in history.
Slavery within Africa
Europeans did not invent slavery- they
followed a long history going back to
ancient times.
 In Africa, 25 African kingdoms took part in
a slave trade.

European Slave Trade
When Europeans joined the slave trade they
rarely kidnapped people on their own.
 Europeans relieve on trade with caboceers,
African slave traders.
 In 1441 a Portuguese ship
unloaded its first human cargo.
 The rest of Europe followed
Portugal’s example.

5. The Triangular Trade
A.
Ships sailed several routes, east of which formed
the three legs of a geographic triangle.
D. Third leg:
Europeans used
the profits from
the sale of slaves
in the Americas to
buy items to be
sold back in
Europe for a profit.
B. First leg:
Europeans
ships carried goods
to Africa
C. Second leg: the
European goods
were traded for
slaves (mostly from
West Africa) and
shipped to America
Effects of Slavery
The exact number is not known but more
than 11 million Africans lived to set foot in
the Americas.
 The forced migration of Africans increased
the number of people living in the
colonies.
 The majority of Slaves came from West
Africa, this decimated their culture, but
also freed up land for warring tribes to
expand.

6. Resistance and Consequences
A.
Slavery left Africa in conflict as tribes
would wage war just to gain more
slaves.
Some Africans ran away, others led
revolts aboard slave ships.
C. An abolition movement was taking shape
to end slavery worldwide.
D. Britain and France were the first countries
to outlaw slavery.
B.