colonial period
Pre-independence historical age
The colonial period is the era when a territory was under the political control of a foreign power.
In American contexts, it typically refers to the years between early European settlement and independence—roughly 1607 to 1776.
Colonial period architecture features distinctive symmetry and craftsmanship.
The phrase appears in historical and academic writing more than casual speech.
- British RajImperial rule over India
- East India CompanyBritish colonial trading corporation
- tea plantationsFarms cultivating camellia sinensis
- American RevolutionColonial separation from Britain
- indigenous resistanceFirst peoples opposing colonization
syncretism · religious conversion · cash crops · Dutch East Indies · Scramble for Africa · white man's burden · plantation economy · spice trade · treaty-making · missionary activity · mission schools · culinary fusion · monopolies · Columbian Exchange · French Indochina · trading posts · viceroyalties · redcoats
- American HistoryAmerican Revolution, Revolutionary War, founding fathers, Declaration of Independence, George Washington
- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, Civil War, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
- 1700sMozart, Voltaire, French Revolution, William III, Declaration of Independence
- erasera, epoch, age, bronze age, Victorian era
- historical erasStone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance
- Indian historyancient India, Indian independence, Akbar, Mughal Empire, British Raj
colonial periodhome rule
Delegated local autonomy
independence · national independence · national sovereignty · self-governance · liberation