1. Day 47 Competing Claims in North America Extra Credit: Last of the Mohicans (film)

2. New France French also looking for East Indies New York Harbor and Eastern Canada, St. Louis Named after King Louis Marquette (a priest) travels down Mississippi River Claims for France La Salle is sent into Spanish Texas No Colonies- Fur Trade- mostly men

3. Jamestown Inspired by French and Spanish Success First British Colony (Virginia today) Charter from King James

4. Life in Jamestown “Thus we lived for space of five months in miserable distress…our men night and day groaning in every corner of the fort, most pitiful to hear. If there were any conscience in men, it would make their hearts to bleed to hear the pitiful murmuring and outcries of our sick men for relief, every night and day for the space of six weeks: some departing out of the World, many times three or four in a night; in the morning their bodies trailed out of their cabin like dogs, to be buried.”

5. New England Pilgrims/Puritan arrival In Search of Religious Freedom Myth of Thanksgiving Attempted to move into New Mexico but Spanish re double effort

6. New Netherlands and French Indian War Hudson Bay- Straight of Anian/ Northwest Passage Dutch decide not to fight British in Canada Name of War: Who Fought? Colonial interest Agricultural vs. Trapper Culture

7. Russians begin trapping in Oregon

8. Colonizing the Caribbean Haiti- French English- Barbados, Jamaica Dutch- Antilles and Aruba Tobacco and Sugar

9. Reaction by indigenous people Mixed based on cost benefit Biggest problems with British (Puritan view on religion and Agri. View of land) King Phillips war – Led by Metacom Small Pox and measles

10. Summary Questions 1)Who ousted the Dutch from North America? 2)What was the First permanent English settlement? 3)What Nation controlled what is now the Midwestern portion of the United States? 4)What colonies did the Pilgrims' found? 5)What religious group arrived in Massachusetts Bay? 6)Which war started between colonist and King Metacom? 7)Who fought against one another in the French and Indian War? Who won?