UNIT 4: EUROPEAN COLONIZATION

TO WHAT EXTENT WAS FRENCH COLONIZATION

SIMILAR TO BRITISH COLONIZATION IN
CANADA?
COLONIZATION TODAY
WHAT IS COLONIZATION?

Colony:
a region claimed and ruled by a
country from another part of the
world

Colonization:
the act of settling a group of
people in a new place
WHY CREATE A COLONY?

1. Gain Resources

2. Protect Resources

3. Decrease Population

4. Claim Land
1) GAIN RESOURCES

Collect resources to send back

to the mother country

Allow resources to be gathered

year round
2) PROTECT RESOURCES
Make sure resources are available

Ensure

Know where First Nations traders are

Another European country doesnt claim

your resources
3) DECREASE POPULATION

Too full in home country

Not enough jobs or land

Send people elsewhere

DECREASE POPULATION
4) CLAIM LAND

European concept of
property

First country to have:

People
Walls
Farms
Owns land