1. Success in the New World

3. Spains Decline Spain’s dominance declines in the New World 3 reasons:
Pirates of the Caribbean's- Pirates like Sir Francis Drake robbed ships and ports
Lack of excitement for colonization by Spanish people
Spain’s over focus on Mercantilism (focus on gold, exports over imports)

4. France in the New World
France: French merchants were the first to explore part of Canada
the French didn’t find gold, but did make a large profit off fur trading
French had good relations with the Indians

5. England in the New World
England: the English colonized the east coast of N. America
first colony in the New World was Roanoke on the Carolina Coast (Known as Lost Colony)
Virginia Dare becomes the first English child born in the New World two years later

6. Jamestown
Jamestown (1607) – the first permanent English settlement in America
prospered under the leadership of John Smith who harvested of tobacco
Becomes the first English settlement to import slaves in 1619