Spanish adventurerers in the new world.

God, Glory and Gold.

Balboa- crossed isthmus of panama, first European to see the Pacific Ocean 

Ponce de Leon- explored Florida

Hernando Cortes- destroyed the Aztecs of Mexico, took their enormous riches

Hernando de Soto- explored southeastern U.S.

Cabeza de Vaca- explored Grand Canyon and as far east as Kansas in search of the 7 cities of Gold

Spanish colonies in the New World, controlled by the government in Spain

200,000 Spanish came to the new world

Iindian population used as slave labor-they died of overwork and European disease

Black slaves from Africa began to be imported

Jacques Cartier- explored St. Lawrence River as far as Montreal- 1534

Samuel de Champlain- established Quebec-1608

LaSalle sailed down the Mississippi River to its mouth-1682

small population in Canada along St. Lawrence River

Failed attempt by English to establish a colony off the coast of North Carolina

When supply ship returned from England , all were gone

To this day we do not know what happened to the settlers of Roanoke

First permenent English Colony in America

* London Company

*Early years: colony faced disaster--starvation,    settled in a swamp, "gentlemen" came to find gold, were not workers

 *"Starving Time," poor relations with Powhatan Indians

* John Smith, "saves " Jamestown- "He that willnot work, will not eat ."

*John Rolfe discovers superior strain of tobacco

Founded by Henry Hutson, who sailed for the Dutch

New Amsterdam- now NY City

Taken over by Duke of York and the English, becoming the English colony of New York

Pilgrims/Separtists sailing on the Mayflower are blown off course heading for Northern Virginia and land on Cape Cod in search of religious freedom

*settle in Plymouth, Massachusetts

signed on the Mayflower.

It established a foundation of orderly government based on the consent of the governed- 

"a Civil Body Politic," for our better ordering and preservation ; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.

settled by Puritans- today Massachusetts

John Winithrop

Great Migration saw 20,000 Puritans settle in the area of Boston

20,000 Puritans who settled Massachusetts Bay Colony, led by the ship the Arbella

Was banished from Massachusetts Bay for challenging the Puritan Ministers

--fled to Rhode Island and then to Long Island where she and most of her family were killed by Native-Americans

She became a symbol of religious  freedom and womens' rights

regulating American trade for the benefit of the mother country. Point of having Colonies was to serve the mother country

Colony would provide the raw materials

Colony would buy imports from mother country