colonial settlements
Imperial frontier communities
Colonial settlements are communities established by a nation or empire in territory away from its homeland, typically involving the permanent relocation of settlers to occupy and develop the land.
The term often carries implications of displacement or subjugation of indigenous populations: The colonial settlements expanded westward despite treaty agreements.
Such settlements served as footholds for resource extraction, trade, and political control.
- frontier townsRemote edge-of-territory communities
- mercantilismTrade policy favoring exports
- chartered companiesFirms with government-granted privileges
- company townEmployer-owned settlement
- port cityUrban area with harbor
assimilation policies · archaeological sites · trading posts · historical landmarks · penal colonies · colonial governors · cash crops · land grants · resistance movements · encomienda · slave labor · fortifications · native displacement · indentured servitude · sugar plantations · governor · harbor · plantation
- Canadian FrontierBritish Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon
- Chesapeake historyChesapeake Bay, watermen, blue crabs, oystering, crabbing
- Florida HistorySt. Augustine, Ponce de Leon, Everglades, Spanish exploration, Seminole
- Long IslandLong Island, Huntington, Hempstead, Montauk, Babylon
- Spanish coloniesSpanish conquest, Spanish crown, viceroys, viceroyalties, viceroyalty
- rural Americanafarm, church, farmer, covered bridges, country stores
colonial settlementsindigenous villages
Settlements of original inhabitants
native communities · indigenous territories · ancestral homelands · ancestral lands · traditional villages
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