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Oct 19, 2020 · published on 19 October 2020. Available in other languages: French, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish. Secoton Village by John White. John White (CC BY-NC-SA) The European Colonization of the Americas was the process by which European settlers populated the regions of North, Central, South America, and the islands of the Caribbean.
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In the French colonial regions, the focus of economy was on sugar plantations in the French West Indies. In Canada the fur trade with the natives was important. About 16,000 French men and women became colonizers.
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Oct 29, 2009 · The story of North American exploration spans an entire millennium and involves a wide array of European powers and uniquely American characters. It began with the Vikings’ brief stint in ...
After Spanish control of the Caribbean began to weaken, the French turned their attention to small islands in the West Indies, and by 1635 they had colonized two, Guadeloupe and Martinique. Though it lagged far behind Spain, France now boasted its own West Indian colonies.
The French presence became an obstacle to English expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Tensions came to a head during the French and Indian War (1754–63), which marked the end of French power in North America. Verrazano explores Northeast. French efforts at colonizing North America began in the early sixteenth century.
The Anglo-French wars of the 18th century had less direct effect on western Africa than did the earlier wars involving the Dutch, but the development of trade with western Africa to supply slaves for their American colonies continued to be an important aim of both countries. France emerged as master of the coastal trade north of the Gambia ...
development. citizenship. federation. Subjects. Colonial Conquest and Rule. Political History. West Africa. At the end of World War II Britain and France both realized that the colonial world as they knew it could no longer be maintained.
