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FROM COLONIES TO COMMONWEALTH

a journey into british history

Independence& Commonwealth

Colonization

Imperialism

1500-1600

1700-1800

1900-2000

intergovernmental organization of 56 independent states united by their past membership of the British Empire

  • Balfour declaration (Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland and Newfoundland)
  • "neoimperialism"

Henry VII (1485-1509) and Henry VIII (1509-1547)

  • strengthening of the naval forces
  • maritime explorations on North America.

Elizabeth I (1558-1603)

  • Virginia Company
  • colony of Jamestown
  • corsairs expeditions against Spain
  • fundation of East India Company
  • war against Ireland

James I Stuart (1603-1625)

from

to

COLONIALISM

IMPERIALISM

  • economic interests and military expansion
  • centralized imperial power
  • Industrial Revolution
  • 1857: dissolution of the East India Company in favor to a direct control

sense of racial superiority and a belief in the mission to civilize these inferior populations.