1. Colonizing North America
Section 3
Colonizing North America

2. I. Searching for the Northwest Passage
Magellan’s route to Asia was long and dangerous.
European nations wanted to find a shorter safer northwest passage.
Northwest passage- waterway through or around North America.
John Cabot was the first to try to find this passage for the English.
Cabot thought he had found the passage but actually found Newfoundland.

3. Exploring for France A. Giovanni da Verrazano(Italian)
B. Jacques Cartier
Sailed the coast line of North America from the Carolinas to Canada
Traveled more than half way up the St. Lawrence River.

4. C. Henry Hudson 1609 Voyage Dutch 1610 Voyage English
Sailed into the present day New York Harbor and 150 miles up Hudson River.
Sailed far north into the Hudson Bay where the crew set Hudson and his son in a row boat.

5. Failure and Success
Though none of these men found a northwest passage, they did map and explore many parts of North America .
Rulers of Western Europe started to see value in the resources.

6. II. Rivalries in the Americas
A. As Europeans settled in the Americas, they brought their religious rivalries too.
B. Protestant versus Catholic
Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
The Roman Catholic Church had always been THE church until the Reformation.
C. England’s Queen Elizabeth I encouraged her people to raid Spanish ships and colonies in response to the Spanish seizing English merchant ships in Spanish harbors.

7. III. New France A. Port Royal B. Quebec
Samuel de Champlain founded Port Royal, the first permanent French settlement in North America in 1605.
1608- Champlain set up a trading post high above the St. Lawrence River named Quebec.

8. IV. Economy of New France
The French were much more tolerant of the Natives.
Profited from fishing, trapping, and trade taught to them by the Natives.
Coureurs de bois ( runners of the woods)- French colonists who lived and worked in the woods.
Items traded with the Native Americans.
Knives
Kettles
Cloth
E. Items Indians traded with Coureurs de bois
Beaver skins
Animal skins
Furs could be sold at high prices in France and other European cities
Catholic missionaries traveled with fur traders to teach the Indians about Christianity not force it.

9. V. New Netherland
1626 Peter Minuit led Dutch settlers to the mouth of the Hudson River.
Bought Manhattan Island from the local Indians
Named New Amsterdam
Settled further up the river and named it New Netherland (New York)
B. Grew into a large and busy port.
C. New Netherland welcomed all people from all nations and religious into the colony.

10. VI. Dutch Fur Trade Furs were sent to the Netherlands.
First shipment included
7246 beaver
853 otter
81 mink
36 lynx(cat)
34 small rats
C. The Dutch became rivals with the French over the furs
D. Alliance- an agreement between nations to aid and protect one another.
Dutch allied with the Iroquois
French allied with Hurons

11. VII. Dutch Impact on North America
Customs
Ice-skating
Celebration of St. Nicholas’s B-day
Dutch words(boss, yachts, cookies, sleighs)
B. Impact on Native Americans
Diseases
Indian Warfare over fur trade
Disappearance of beavers
Christianity
Guns
Copper kettles
Alcohol
Took Native American lands