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European Nations Settle North America
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Motives
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The English Arrive in North America
1606—London investors receive charter from King James 1607—Jamestown established for $$ Colony = disastrous initially Settlers search for gold rather than plant crops 70% died Hunger Disease Native American conflicts The English Arrive in North America
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Jamestown’s Cash Crop TOBACCO
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Puritans Create a “New England”
Pilgrims Plymouth, Massachusetts Religious Freedom Separatists from Anglican Church Puritans Massachusetts Bay area PURIFY Anglican Church Puritans Create a “New England”
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Dutch Found New Netherland
Henry Hudson Englishman in service of Dutch Hudson River, Hudson Bay, Hudson Strait Dutch trade with Iroquois TRADING POSTS; low population Albany Manhattan Founded Dutch West India Company Dutch Found New Netherland
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Colonizing the Caribbean
French Haiti Guadeloupe Martinique English Barbados Jamaica Dutch Antilles Aruba Colonizing the Caribbean
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Colonizing the Caribbean
Cotton and Sugar = $$$ Required lots of labor Enslaved Africans Why didn’t natives provide labor for the European colonies? Colonizing the Caribbean
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