Research+-+Colonialism


 * =  Colonialism   = ||   ||   ||  By Maz  ||
 * ** Date  ** || **  Event  ** || **  Description  ** || **  Reflection statement  ** ||
 * 1492 ||  Christopher Columbus Sails to the “New World”  ||  Commissioned by Spain (and to some extent Portugal) Columbus first ‘discovered’ the Americas  ||  Where it not for his exploration of the new world the Americas would never have been ‘found’ and settled.  ||
 * 1494 ||  [|Treaty of Tordesillas]  ||  And agreement signed between Spain and Portugal in which they divide the ‘new world’ amongst themselves.  ||  This allowed the two countries to explore and settle their own parts of the new world without dispute and became the basis for some of the South American countries such as Brazil. It also was the main point of frustration for other European nations now interested in the new world as they were not given the opportunity to debate their share, thus a fight for land begun.  ||
 * Early 16th Century ||  Attempt To Colonise  ||  European countries (including England and France) began to dispute the [|Treaty of Tordesillas] and attempted to colonise the Americas unsuccessfully  ||  This effectively became a race between the European nations who where competing for land and attempting to colonise this new world. It is this competitive nature and greed that spurred the settlement of America by Britain.  ||
 * 1607 ||  Settlement of Jamestown  ||  The first permanent settlement of Britain in America  ||  This provided England with a foot hold in the Americas as well as fertile land. Crops of tobacco where grown and proved to be extremely profitable, encouraging the further development / settlement of Jamestown/ Virginia/America.  ||
 * 1619 || House of Burgesses  ||  Formation of the first representative self government.  ||  This ended the monopoly of land ownership and allowed colonists to take control and initiative in the run of their land which they now owned. Representatives where elected to govern the new ‘cities’ of Virginia as a part of their new freedom in self determination.  ||