colonial settlers
New world arrivals
Colonial settlers are people who establish residence in a territory claimed or controlled by a distant power, often displacing indigenous populations.
The term carries historical weight from European expansion into the Americas, Africa, and Asia: Colonial settlers pushed westward into Native American lands.
Unlike temporary colonists, settlers implies permanent establishment and the building of new communities.
- PilgrimsPlymouth's founding English colonists
- RoanokeVirginia city or vanished colony
- land grantsGovernment-awarded real estate parcels
- land grabRapid territorial acquisition
- Mayflower1620 colonial transport vessel
Jamestown · indentured servitude · New France · fur trade · trading post · Squanto · Indian Wars · encomienda · chartered companies · homesteading · assimilation · cash crops · Thirteen Colonies · Old World · British Raj · colonial outpost · frontier life · plantation economy
- colonial historycolonies, pilgrims, Jamestown, Plymouth, Mayflower
- British Emigrationexpat communities, economic migrants, war brides, transportation, Mayflower
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
- migrantsmigrants, arctic tern, monarch butterfly, caribou, humpback whale
- genealogyfamily trees, family history, descendants, ancestors, ancestry tracing
- MascarenesMauritius, Rodrigues, dodo, volcanic islands, Saint-Denis
colonial settlersindigenous peoples
Original inhabitants of lands
First Nations · original inhabitants · locals · indigenous populations · native populations
colonial settlersresistance fighters
Armed opponents of occupation
freedom fighters · independence movements · liberation forces
colonial settlersdisplaced populations
People forced from homes
refugees · exiles · emigrants · repatriates · deportees