Europeans Explore North America PDF

Europeans Settle North America Why did the Europeans decide to explore North America? Class Agenda for January 31, 2024 1. Review Warm-up Question/answers 2. Meme/Thought of the Day 3. Learning Objective: SWBAT understand how the exploration and colonization of the America spread into North America....

Europeans Settle North America Why did the Europeans decide to explore North America? Class Agenda for January 31, 2024 1. Review Warm-up Question/answers 2. Meme/Thought of the Day 3. Learning Objective: SWBAT understand how the exploration and colonization of the America spread into North America. 4. Essential Question: Why did Europeans decided to explore North America? - Vocabulary and definitions a. Discuss the Settlement of N. America, pp. 127-131 5. Homework: Please read Textbook Pages, pp. attached article on schoology, and Assessment (1-8) France, the Netherlands, and Great Britain Leif Erikson: the First European Explorer: (~ 1000 CE) Giovanni da Verrazzano 1524 (looking for the Northwest Passage; it didn’t exist) - Instead, he finds New York harbor Jacques Cartier 1608, St. Lawrence River and Montreal Samuel Champlain, established Quebec and New France; the base of France’s colonial empire A Jesuit priest, Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet expanded into the Great Lakes region and the upper Mississippi river Sieur de La Salle claimed the Mississippi valley for the French calling it, Louisiana, after King Louis XIV - New France covered most of the Midwest and eastern Canada France created an immense trading empire. - New France population in 1760 was about 65,000. - Many French had little desire to raise families in Canada, it was cold... - Most were Catholic priests and fur traders - The French wanted to make money - the British wanted to increase their empire 1606, King James I of England granted a charter to explore N. America - Jamestown, 1607, 3 ships and ~100 settlers, more interested in gold than farming to feed themselves; - Many died (7 out 10 died in the first years; disease, starvation or battles with indigenous peoples) Tobacco is discovered helped Jamestown thrive; it becomes a cash crop, high demand in England In 1620, the Pilgrims founded a 2nd English colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts. - They left England to escape religious persecution–they practiced a more fundamental or radical brand of Christianity—Puritans— separatists - 1630, Massachusetts Bay Colony (non-separatists) near Boston with John Winthrop - Both wanted religious freedom In 1609 Henry Hudson, from the Netherlands explored three waterways - He was looking for the Northwest Passage - Hudson Bay and Hudson strait - The Dutch established fur trade with the Iroquois indians - Established Ft. Orange (Albany) and Manhattan (Dutch West India Co.) - Germans and Scandinavians also also settled in N. America 1664, Charles II of England sends Duke of York (his brother) to expel the Dutch and claim: - New Netherlands- New York - New Amsterdam- New York City By 1750, English colonies had 1.2 million settlers. - England battled France over territories, trading rights and other issues… - Seven Years War or French-Indian War in 1754-1763 Struggles between Settlers and Native people of the land - Over trading rights, territories, religion, and other issues - Dutch and French settlers co-existed far better with the indigenous people of the Americas than the British in North America