Compare And Contrast Jamestown And Dutch Colonization
INTRO
In May 1607, three ships sailed up from Chesapeake Bay in search for the first permanent English colony in North America. Although Jamestown colony was doomed from the beginning, it was not so much an outpost as an establishment of what was to become the United States. Forty-five years later, another three ships representing the Dutch Republic and its company, the East India Company, anchored in the Cape of Good Hope. Their purpose was to establish a refreshment station where ships could break the long voyage between the Netherlands and the company’s main settlement at Batavia in Java.
These two occurrences constituted the beginnings of two of the first white-dominated societies outside of Europe. Starting from the small settlements …show more content…
In contrast to the latter’s long tradition of expansionism and territorialism, the Dutch Republic came into existence in the late 16th century, a loose federation of provinces that had escaped from Spanish domination. What drove the Dutch into overseas ventures was not the prospect of expanding their land holdings and claiming sovereignty in other lands, but the promise of lucrative trade that would allow the Dutch to hold onto their precarious autonomy. With England, trade with the natives was less important than the establishment of territorial claims. This required the subjugation of the natives which was justified by the superior civil-inferior savage belief. In comparison, Dutch economic policy did not require the large-scale conquest of territory; in fact, it may have mollified their claims to superiority so long as a commercial relationship was being …show more content…
The Europeans called the natives Hottentots and entered into a cattle trade with them. Gradually, the Dutch increased their numbers and enlarged their land holdings, much to the Hottentots’ alarm. When the expansion of white farming began to encroach upon Hottentot land, tensions began to develop. The first Hottentot-Dutch war of 1659-60 was the outcome of this growing tension and was resolved by a treaty acknowledging white rights to occupancy of the territory. Although the Dutch were few in numbers, they were able to hold onto their claims because the Hottentots were comprised of small and unorganized tribes who competed with one another for dominance.
In 1806, the Cape fell to British possession. But the natives were not displaced or removed to make way for an expansion as the Native Americans had been in the American colonies through actions like the Indian Removal act of 1830. The main reason that they remained in possession of most of their original territory was that they were the predominant population group, one because of their ability to maintain their numbers and two, because of the white colonists’ failure to grow as rapidly as in the United
In May 1607, three ships sailed up from Chesapeake Bay in search for the first permanent English colony in North America. Although Jamestown colony was doomed from the beginning, it was not so much an outpost as an establishment of what was to become the United States. Forty-five years later, another three ships representing the Dutch Republic and its company, the East India Company, anchored in the Cape of Good Hope. Their purpose was to establish a refreshment station where ships could break the long voyage between the Netherlands and the company’s main settlement at Batavia in Java.
These two occurrences constituted the beginnings of two of the first white-dominated societies outside of Europe. Starting from the small settlements …show more content…
In contrast to the latter’s long tradition of expansionism and territorialism, the Dutch Republic came into existence in the late 16th century, a loose federation of provinces that had escaped from Spanish domination. What drove the Dutch into overseas ventures was not the prospect of expanding their land holdings and claiming sovereignty in other lands, but the promise of lucrative trade that would allow the Dutch to hold onto their precarious autonomy. With England, trade with the natives was less important than the establishment of territorial claims. This required the subjugation of the natives which was justified by the superior civil-inferior savage belief. In comparison, Dutch economic policy did not require the large-scale conquest of territory; in fact, it may have mollified their claims to superiority so long as a commercial relationship was being …show more content…
The Europeans called the natives Hottentots and entered into a cattle trade with them. Gradually, the Dutch increased their numbers and enlarged their land holdings, much to the Hottentots’ alarm. When the expansion of white farming began to encroach upon Hottentot land, tensions began to develop. The first Hottentot-Dutch war of 1659-60 was the outcome of this growing tension and was resolved by a treaty acknowledging white rights to occupancy of the territory. Although the Dutch were few in numbers, they were able to hold onto their claims because the Hottentots were comprised of small and unorganized tribes who competed with one another for dominance.
In 1806, the Cape fell to British possession. But the natives were not displaced or removed to make way for an expansion as the Native Americans had been in the American colonies through actions like the Indian Removal act of 1830. The main reason that they remained in possession of most of their original territory was that they were the predominant population group, one because of their ability to maintain their numbers and two, because of the white colonists’ failure to grow as rapidly as in the United