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Age of Exploration
North American Settlement
Mr. Stowinsky
World History
European Nations Settle
North America
► The
French, English, and Dutch were jealous of
Spain & Portugal’s success and trade routes and
wanted to find their own
► “Northwest Passage” – fabled passage believed to
cut through North America to Asia
► 1524 - Giovanni de Verrazano – Italian who sailed
for France. Discovered New York Harbor
► 1534 – Jacques Cartier – discovered and named
the St. Lawrence, discovered and named Montreal
► 1608
– Samuel de Champlain – sailed up the St.
Lawrence and founded Quebec, which became the
base of France’s North American empire, New
France
► 1673 – Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet
explored the Great Lakes & upper Mississippi River
► 1682 – Sieur LaSalle – sailed lower Mississippi and
named all he found Louisiana
► New France massive but barely populated – the
French wanted to make money, not build towns
The English Arrive in North America
► Jamestown
– English settlement settled in
1607 in modern-day Virginia
► 70% of colonists died due to disease,
starvation, or battles with Native Americans
► Began planting crops, including tobacco.
Jamestown became the first permanent
English settlement
► Plymouth
– settled by Pilgrims
► Massachusetts Bay – settled by Puritans 10
years after the Pilgrims founded Plymouth
► 1609 – Henry Hudson – explored the
Hudson River, Hudson Bay, and Hudson
Strait
► The Dutch set up New Netherland and
colonized Manhattan Island and modern
Albany
► European nations also colonized Caribbean
Islands with sugar and cotton plantations
The Struggle for North America
► The
Dutch surrendered New Netherland to
England, it was renamed New York
► French & Indian War – both countries
fought for claim of North America – Britain
won and took the eastern half of North
America
The Atlantic Slave Trade
► Slavery
already existed in Africa due to Muslim
belief in enslaving non-Muslim prisoners of war
► European plantations tried making use of Native
American slave labor, but millions died due to
starvation, disease, and torture
► Europeans began buying and importing African
slaves to plantations. African chiefs made profit
and saved their own people by rounding up other
people to be sold as slaves
Advantages to African slaves:
► 1. immune to most European diseases
► 2. many had farming experience
► 3. did not know their way around the New
World and couldn’t escape
► 4. skin color made them easier to identify
and catch if they escaped
Atlantic Slave Trade – buying & selling of
African slaves for work in the Americas
Triangular Trade –
► 1. Europeans brought manufactured goods
to Africa
► 2. These goods were traded for slaves, the
slaves were brought to America
► 3. Sugar, coffee, and tobacco were brought
from America to Europe