colonial society
Imperial settlement structure
Colonial society refers to the social structure and organization of people living in a territory under the political control of a distant power.
The term typically describes hierarchical communities shaped by the relationship between colonizers and colonized populations, with distinctions of race, ethnicity, and origin determining status and opportunity.
Colonial society in the Caribbean was rigidly stratified by skin color.
- cash cropsPlants grown for profit
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- imperialismExtending dominion over others
- casteInherited social division
- color lineSegregation by race
syncretism · mestizo · viceroy · triangular trade · tea trade · slavery · racial segregation · assimilation · landed gentry · indentured servitude · creole · mixed blood · missionary work · bureaucracy · mercantilism · monopoly · tariffs · plantation system
- Colonial AmericaGeorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Declaration of Independence
- heritage organizationsheritage trust, heritage center, national heritage, SAR, maritime heritage
- Spanish coloniesSpanish conquest, Spanish crown, viceroys, viceroyalties, viceroyalty
- Colonial BrazilBrazil, Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Sao Paulo
- Colonial Cubaindependence movement, Cuban rebels, independence struggle, liberation army, Spanish rule
- Colonial La PlataBuenos Aires, Montevideo, viceroyalty, Spanish rule, conquistadors
colonial societysovereign nation
Self-ruled territorial polity
tribal sovereignty · free state · home rule · self-determination · metropole
colonial, society, colony, colonies, colonist, colonists, colonize, colonized, colonizing