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Companies That Colonized |
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Companies That Colonized |
SET:
OBJECTIVES:
1. Compare and contrast the London, English, East India, and Hudson Bay companies.
2. Students will understand why the companies were created.
RATIONALE: Many Englishmen were extremely interested in becoming rich and spreading the English culture throughout the world. These companies were comprised of wealthy men who wanted to invest their money in colonizing other places so they could earn profits and become wealthier.
INVOLVEMENT OF LEARNER: How many of you know what the stock market is? Would you invest in a company if you could? What company would you invest in? Why would you invest in this company?
TRANSITION: Explain to the students the potential risk and profits that could be gained or earned when investing in foreign land.
EXPLANATION:
1. Explain to the students what the London Company was. The London Company was a association of merchants, gentlemen and noblemen. It was a part of the Virginia Company and if founded Jamestown in 1607. The company was connected with a Royal Company after King James decided that it was being managed poorly.
a. Ask students can they define what a Royal Colony is? If they give the correct response then restate the definition. If the response is incorrect, then give a correct definition of a Royal Colony.
2. The English East India Company is another company that was compromised of wealthy Englishmen. It established trade, a system of open trade with India. Also the East India Company had the longest life of all the companies (260 years) and the greatest influence.
3. The Hudson Bay Company was founded in 1670 with the purpose of trading in British North America. It was a corporate colony. It was influential in developing Canadian civilization, by setting up trade relations with Indians.
a. Ask student can they define what a Corporate Colony is? If they give the correct response then restate the definition. If the response is incorrect, then give a correct definition of a Corporate Colony.
4. Companies that colonized were able to do so because they were granted permission to start colonies in the New World by the English government, king or a company was a joint-stock company.
a. Ask students can they define what a joint-stock company is? If they can give the correct response restate the definition. If the response is incorrect, then give a correct definition of a joint-stock company.
ACTIVITIES:
Handout a worksheet that is a chart. The chart should be divided into three sections (at top of chart there should be -London Company| East India Company| Hudson Bay Company. List at the left of the chart should be as follows:
1. Established
2. Leaders
3. Location
4. Positive Attributes
5. Negative Attributes
CLOSURE:
1. Ask students what was the purpose of the London, East India, and the Hudson Bay Companies?
2. Who established these colonies?
Smith This Realm of England 1399-1688 Sixth edition Massachusetts: D.C.
Heath and Company: 1992.
Smith designed this particular book to give readers a detailed layout of England from 1399-1688. The book takes readers on several journeys through the specified time periods such as, the fall of kings to the rising of kingdoms. This particular edition visits and has revised the sections pertaining to Lancastrian, Yorkist, and early Tudor reigns.
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