1. Settle North America: Ch. 4 sec. 2
European Nations
Settle North America: Ch. 4 sec. 2

2. Three Nations Colonize
France, England, and Netherlands
Colonizing Eastern half of Canada, and eastern U.S. to Mississippi River (N and S U.S)
Reasons to be there differed with each country

3. New France
Explorers: Verranzzano, Cartier, Father Marquette, and Louis Joilet
The French went down the St. Lawrence river, explored the great lakes, went down the Mississippi

4. New France facts
Large sized territory but no population: 65,000 settlers by 1760
Fur trading very profitable for the French
Capital of New France was city on St. Lawrence River named Quebec
Another city was on an island named Mount Royal (Mont Real); Montreal
Families not settling New France, young single men in the fur trade were. Not as attached to the land.

5. English Settling Started in 1606, King James chartered a settlement.
Jamestown, in Virginia was established in 1607
Nearly everyone starved to death
More interest in gold than planting crops
Eventually, food is produced; Tobacco discovered as cash crop

6. Religious SettleMent: Puritains
Puritains: Protestants who wanted to live in Theocracy
Took Mayflower to Massachusetts
Puritain colony was more successful sooner
Religious and family motivation different from Jamestown

7. The Dutch Move in
They commission Brit, Henry Hudson to explore lands for them
Among other places, finds the Hudson River and establishes 2 places in present day New York
Fort Orange (Albany), and New Amsterdam (New York City)
Slow to populate colony

8. Caribbean & Brits vs Dutch
During this period, the islands of the Caribbean are claimed
French: Haiti & Martinique
Brits: Barbados and Jamaica
Dutch: Antillies and Aruba
Britain had claims north and south of New Netherland
Duke of York was sent to kick the Dutch out.
The Dutch surrendered without a fight: New Amsterdam became New York

9. Seven Years/French-Indian War
This conflict decided who’d stay in North America
Called French-Indian War
Part of the world wide 7 years war between Britain and France
French and Indians teamed together but British win entire war

10. Map of British conquests in N. America

11. Britain’s Indian Problem
While the French and Dutch got along w/tribes, British settlers did not.
British came to settle N. America, the other two countries sent less people and it was temporary
British settlers often came because of religious beliefs. They believed Indians to be heathens
Settling the land meant farming it. This required the British to relocate Indians. Not Popular

12. Disease: Just Like in S. America, it Decimated tribes in North America
Ex: The Massachusett Tribe goes from to 750