Britain and its colonies (1600~1900)

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Britain and its colonies (1600~1900)

British seize Hong Kong from China in the year 1841

Minerals

Cyprus becomes a British Colony in the year 1878

Copper, lumber and salt

Settlement of Penal Colony of Botany Bany, known as Sydney in the year 1788

Minerals, coil, natural gas and lead.

Treaty of Paris in the year 1763

India becomes British Possession

Mississippi becomes British Possession

Canada becomes British Possession

Ends Anglo-French War

Settlement of Bermuda in the year 1609

Discovered in 1505 by Spainsh Sea Captain, Juan de Bermudez

Located in the North Atlantic Ocean. Off the east coast of the United States

Thirteen Colonies

Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

Founded by Roger Williams

Founded in the year 1636

North Carolina

Founded by Virginians

Founded in the year 1653

New York

Became a Royal Colony in the year 1685

Founded by Duke of York

Virginia

Became a Royal Colony in the year 1624

Founded by London Company

Founded in the year 1607

New Hampshire

Became a Royal Colony in the year 1679

Founded by John Wheelwright

Founded in the year 1623

South Carolina

Became a Royal Colony in the year 1729

Founded by Eight Nobles with a Royal Charter from Charles II

Founded in the year 1663

Maryland

Founded by Lord Baltimore

Founded in the year 1634

Massachusetts Bay

Became a Royal Colony in the year 1691

Founded by the Puritans

Founded in the year 1620

Connecticut

Founded by Thomas Hooker

Founded in the year c.1635

Gerogia

Became a Royal Colony in the year 1752

Founded by James Edward Oglethorpe

Founded in the year 1732

New Jersey

Became a Royal Colony in the year 1702

Founded by Lord Berkeley and SIr George Carteret

Founded in the year 1664

Pennsyvania

Founded by William Penn

Founded in the year 1682

Delaware

Founded by Peter Minuit and New Sweden Company

Founded in the year 1638

British Captured Egypt in the year 1882

Oil and Papyrus Plant gas, and the Nile River itself

Gambia, Gold Coast, and Sierra Leone unite to form British West Africa in the year 1821

Cocoa (export/cash crop) Cassava (food crop) Groundnuts/peanuts (food crop) Maize/corn (food crop)

British capture Trinenad from Spain in the year 1793

Oil and natural gas

Colony of Western Australia Founded in the year 1829

Cotton was the natural resource they were after

British Seize Harvana in the year 1762

harvana was one of the few coutries that did not have a significant resouce....

Settlement of Barbados in the year 1627

Appeared first on Spainish map in the year 1511

Visited by the Spainish around the late 1400s to the early 1500s

Island in the Lesser Antilles

British capture Cuba from Spanish in the year 1762

Cobalt, Iron and nickle was the reason why Britian captured CUba

British seize French Possession French Arcadia, also known as Nova Scotia in the year 1710

Because of its countries location Its main resouces were salt, fish, oil and gas (mainly fish)

Settlement of Jamaica in the year 1655

During the four year from 1820 to 1824, they produced more than 77,000 tons of sugar.

Was settled for sugar and became world's leading sugar exporting and slave-dependent country.

Achieved full independence in the year 1962, August 6th

An Island Nation of the Great Antilles

British seize Cape Colony from the Dutch in the year 1795

water, coal, oil, land, fresh air

British East India seize Ceylon from the Dutch in the year 1815

Spice and silk were its main resource