1 / 12

Portugal, France, & the Netherlands

Portugal, France, & the Netherlands . Portugal. Navigation & Influence of Prince Henry the Navigator 1420s -1430s = Sugar plantations on Madeira, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, & Azores. Portugal’s Role in the Slave Trade. Set up trading posts in West Africa

oke
Download Presentation

Portugal, France, & the Netherlands

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Portugal, France, & the Netherlands

  2. Portugal • Navigation & Influence of Prince Henry the Navigator • 1420s -1430s = Sugar plantations on Madeira, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, & Azores

  3. Portugal’s Role in the Slave Trade • Set up trading posts in West Africa • Established model of slave labor used by other European powers

  4. African Slavery • Slaves of rival tribes captured through war • Slavery was not always permanent nor hereditary • Europeans controlled slave trade after 1600

  5. African Areas for Slave Trade

  6. France • 1534 = Cartier travels up St. Lawrence River • 1555, 1562, 1564 = Huguenots set up failed colonies in Brazil, South Carolina, & Florida

  7. The French & Native Americans • Early 1600s = Champlain creates fur trading posts in Quebec & Nova Scotia • French ally with Hurons • English & Dutch ally with the Iroquois (enemy of the Hurons) • Early contact limited to fur trade

  8. Settlement in New France • 1665 = Governors, soldiers, settlers arrive in Quebec • 1680 = Canada’s population was 10,000 people • Fur traded at trading posts & annual fur fairs in Montreal & Quebec

  9. Way of Life • French intermarry with Native American women • Jesuits tried to convert Indians to Catholicism • 1/3 of French settlers involved in the fur trade • Trading posts located along the Mississippi River

  10. French Caribbean • Sugar, coffee, rice, cotton, indigo, tobacco, cocoa • 1/3 of new slaves died within first 3 years in the Caribbean

  11. Dutch in the New World • 1609 = Henry Hudson & Dutch East India Company sail along Atlantic coast • 1624 = West India Company takes over New Netherland • Dutch buy Manhattan • Dutch did not try to convert the Indians

  12. Diversity in New Amsterdam • 1643 = 18 different languages spoken • Religious toleration = Catholics, Puritans, Lutherans, Anabaptists, Mennonites, Quakers, & Jews • 1664 = Slaves are 1/10 of the population • 1650 = ½ of Long Island went to England

More Related