European Exploration & Settlement

1. Spain2. France3. England 4. Netherlands

Columbus

Looking for a westward route to Asia , Columbus discovered America called the “New World”

Spanish Empire

Spanish Territories1. Caribbean

Sugar Plantations Native Indians African Slaves

2. South AmericaMissions to convert Native AmericansLooking for gold

3. North AmericaMission to convert Native AmericansLooking for gold

Spanish Relationship with Native Americans 4. Captured, killed and enslaved

many Native Americans.5. Many Native Americans

converted to Catholicism.6. Disease killed Native Americans.7. Learned from each other

New France

French Territories1. Canada2. Louisiana Territory and Mississippi

Territory

Very few Settlements3. Fur Trappers4. Harsh climate5. Best land for nobility

French Relationship with Native Americans6. They were business partners7. Good friends with the Huron

Native Americans8. European disease killed many

Native Americans

Jamestown First English Colony

Territories & Settlements 1. Newfoundland2. VirginiaLife in Jamestown3. Difficult4. Swampy with mosquitos5. Diseases6. StarvationRelationship with Native Americans7. Captain John Smith became

friends with Pocahontas8. When Pocahontas married

John Rolfe relations improved.

New Netherlands

Dutch TerritoryBought Manhattan Islandfrom Native AmericansLife in New Netherlands1. Fur trade2. 8,000 Europeans, African

Slaves and Jews seeking religious freedom settled there.

3. English drove the Dutch out and renamed New York.

Dutch relationship with Native Americans4. Friendly with the Iroquois

supplied with guns to fight the Huron.