European Nations Settle North America

• Focus Question:

• How do you know that the English once controlled much of North America?

European Nations Settle North America

• Treaty of Tordesilla

The English Arrive in North America

• King James• 1606- Jamestown-first permanent settlement

in North America– Gold>Crops– Tobacco– Pilgrims- Plymouth, MA• Sought religious freedom

– Puritans• Religious freedom

The Dutch Found New Netherland

• Henry Hudson– Hudson River– Hudson Bay– Hudson Straight

• Fur trade– Iroquois – Dutch West India Company

Colonizing the Caribbean

• French– Haiti– Guadeloupe – Martinique

• English– Barbados– Jamaica

The Struggle for North America

• English vs. Dutch– New York

• England vs. France– French and Indian War-• Seven Years War- French surrendered their North

American holdings

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0qbzNHmfW0

Native Americans Respond

• French and Dutch– Mutual fur traders- cooperative relationship (for

most part)– furs hatchets, mirrors, beads, guns

• English– Pushed natives off land; growing population