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Dutch, English & French Colonies

What did the success of Spain & Portugal lead other nations to do?

• Find their own route to Asia

• Wanted to find a Northwest Passage

• Sea route around or through North America to Asia

• The English, French & Dutch eventually settled for colonies in North America

What did the French & Dutch want from colonies?

• Money from fur trade

• French colonists established trading posts in Canada

• The Dutch settled in present day New York

How did French desire for trade effect relations with Indians?

• The French were interested in trade not land

• Wanted good relations with Indians for trading

• French traders lived among & interacted with Indians

Who was Henry Hudson?

• Englishman sailing for the Dutch

• Claimed the Hudson River Valley & Hudson Bay for the Dutch

• The Dutch established the colony of New Netherland

What were the first two English Colonies in N. America?

What were the first two English Colonies in N. America?

• Roanoke: founded by Sir. Walter Raleigh, but disappeared

• Jamestown, Virginia 1607–First permanent English colony in N.A.

–Founded by the London Company

–Goal of the colony was to find gold

What types of problems did the Jamestown colony have?

• Lack of food

• Lack of labor

• No Gold

• Eventually survived by growing & selling Tobacco

How did the Jamestown Colony attempt to solve their labor problems?

• Indentured Servitude–Provided free passage to the new

world in exchange for 4 to 7 years of work

• Encouraging women & whole families to move

• Importation of slaves from Africa

How were England’s southern colonies different from the French & Dutch?

• English colonies focused on plantation farming, not trade

• English colonies made their money from cash crops

• Required the settlement of large tracts of land by English colonists

What crops did England’s southern colonies grow?

• Virginia: tobacco• NC: naval stores (tar, lumber) for

ship building• SC: rice & indigo• Georgia: established as a prison

colony and a buffer from Spanish Florida

Why did English settlers settle in New England?

• Southern colonies were settled for wealth from cash crops

• New England colonies were settled for religious freedom

• Colonists came to escape religious persecution

What were the first two English colonies settled for religious freedom?

• Plymouth Colony settled by the Pilgrims 1620

• Massachusetts Bay Colony settled by Puritans 1630

• Both colonies allowed religious freedom for Puritans only

What did religious intolerance in Massachusetts lead to?

• More New England colonies• Connecticut was founded as an

escape from strict Puritan rule• Roger Williams formed Rhode Island

after being kicked out of Mass.• Rhode Island allowed religious

toleration for all

What other New England colonies were founded on religious freedom?

• 1630’s, Maryland founded as a refuge for Catholics by Cecil Calvert

• 1680’s, Pennsylvania founded by Quaker leader William Penn