Collection Landing Page Colonization & Settlement, 1493–1763 Reference Guides: Colonization & Settlement, 1493–1763 Beginning with a 1493 Latin printing of Columbus’s letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, the Collection contains more than 4000 colonial-era documents that chronicle...
Spotlight on: Primary Source American Colonization Society membership certificate, 1833 When James Madison signed this membership certificate as president of the American Colonization Society in 1833, the organization’s effort to repatriate America’s free black population to Africa had been underway for over a decade. On...
Video Gold, Gospel, and Glory: Motivations for European Exploration and Colonization of the Americas Economics, Religion and Philosophy, World History Professor John Fea of Messiah College discusses the European motivations--gold, gospel, and glory--for exploration in the Americas, taking Europeans from the Crusades to the Spanish conquest and the exploitation of resources in the...
Lesson Plan Early European Imperial Colonization of the New World World History 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 Introduction By the early to mid-seventeenth century, Spain, England, France, and the Netherlands were all competing for colonies and trade around the world. Beginning in the late fifteenth century, explorers, conquerors, missionaries...