1. European Nations Settle North America
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2. Motives

3. Routes to Asia Spain claimed southern tip of South America route
France, England, and the Netherlands search for northwest passage to Asia
Routes to Asia

6. Explorers establish NEW FRANCE
New York Harbor
Jacques Cartier
French explorer
Found St. Lawrence River (Canada)
Found Mont Real (aka Montreal)
Samuel de Champlain
Found Quebec—becomes capital of NEW FRANCE
Explorers establish NEW FRANCE

7. Other territory claimed by France
Great Lake
Mississippi River
Entire Mississippi River Valley named LOUISIANA in honor of French king, Louis XIV
By the early 1700s, New France = much of Midwestern US and eastern Canada
Other territory claimed by France

9. A Trading Empire New France Large territory Low population
TRADING POSTS OVER SETTLING COLONIES
FUR TRADE = #1 econ activity in New France
A Trading Empire

10. The English Arrive in North America
1606—London investors receive charter from King James
1607—Jamestown established for $$
Colony = disastrous initially
Settlers search for gold rather than plant crops
70% died
Hunger
Disease
Native American conflicts
The English Arrive in North America

12. Jamestown’s Cash Crop
TOBACCO

13. Puritans Create a “New England”
Pilgrims
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Religious Freedom
Separatists from Anglican Church
Puritans
Massachusetts Bay area
PURIFY Anglican Church
Puritans Create a “New England”

15. Dutch Found New Netherland
Henry Hudson
Englishman in service of Dutch
Hudson River, Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait
Dutch trade with Iroquois
TRADING POSTS; low population
Albany
Manhattan
Founded Dutch West India Company
Dutch Found New Netherland

17. Colonizing the Caribbean
French
Haiti
Guadeloupe
Martinique
English
Barbados
Jamaica
Dutch
Antilles
Aruba
Colonizing the Caribbean

19. Colonizing the Caribbean
Cotton and Sugar = $$$
Required lots of labor
Enslaved Africans
Why didn’t natives provide labor for the European colonies?
Colonizing the Caribbean