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Objectives • Explain why the colony of New France grew slowly. • Analyze the establishment and growth of the English colonies. • Understand why Europeans competed for power in North America and how their struggle affected Native Americans.

Time Line 1534 Cartier Explores Canada Key Terms, People, and Places • • • New France Revenue Pilgrims May Flower Compact French and Indian War Treaty of Paris Jamestown Native Americans Disease 1534 New france established 1607 Jamestown Founded 1608 French establish colony in Quebec 1620 Mayflower Compact 1620 Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth Late 1600’s Spain claims Present day Texas and Florida 1754 -1763 French & Indian War 1763 Treaty of Paris

Terms and People • New France – French possession in present-day Canada from the 1500 s to 1763 • revenue – income • Pilgrims – English Protestants who rejected the Church of England • compact – an agreement among people • Diseases- Smallpox, Syphilis, Dysentery

Terms and People (continued) • French and Indian War – a war between France and England that erupted in 1754 in North America and ended in 1763 • Treaty of Paris – the agreement that officially ended the French and Indian War as well as other fighting between France and England, and ensured British dominance in North America • Jamestown-First English Colony • Plymouth- Pilgrims landed there in 1620

How did European struggles for power shape the North American continent? France and England followed Spain in settling North America. Though their hopes for gold or passage to Asia were not met, they did turn profits in their new domains. By 1700, the two nations controlled vast parts of North America. Their colonies were very different from those in Spanish America.

France claimed vast amounts of land in North America during the 1500 s. • The nation called these claims New France. Jacques Cartier explored the coastline in 1534 and discovered the St. Lawrence River. • French missionaries followed the explorers, attempting to convert Native Americans to Christianity.

Despite large French land claims and wide exploration, settlement was slow. • The first permanent French settlement was founded in 1608. • Farming was hard in the cold Canadian climate, so many settlers became fur trappers and traders.

Louis XIV wanted to increase revenues from New France in the 1600 s. He sent more settlers and soldiers to North America. However, he forbade Protestants from settling in New France. Partly as a result, the population of New France was smaller than that of the growing English colonies.

England established colonies along the Atlantic seaboard in the 1600 s. • The English founded their first permanent colony at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607. • Many early settlers died of starvation. Jamestown began to thrive once the colonists started growing and exporting tobacco.

The Pilgrims arrived in 1620. They were English Protestants who rejected the Church of England sought religious freedom. While still on their ship, they signed the Mayflower Compact. A compact is an agreement. This one set guidelines for governing the new colony.

The English established additional colonies in the 1600 s and 1700 s, for many reasons. Virginia New York Commercial ventures organized for profit Massachusetts Pennsylvania Maryland Havens for persecuted religious groups Georgia South Carolina Gifts from English kings to loyal supporters

English colonists learned to create wealth by using native resources. • People in New England built fishing, timber, and shipbuilding industries. • Those in the middle colonies grew grain. • Settlers in the South grew cash crops such as rice and tobacco and developed a plantation economy.

English colonists had a large degree of self-government. • This grew out of English tradition in which both Parliament and the rights of citizens tempered the power of the king. • Each colony had its own representative assembly that advised the king-appointed royal governor.

European powers in North America began to fight in the 1600 s to protect their interests—and to expand them. The two main rivals were France and England. The French and Indian War erupted between them in 1754.

The French and Indian War was a long and hard-fought conflict. • France won several victories early on. • But then British troops captured Quebec, the capital of New France. • In 1763, the Treaty of Paris officially ended the war and established British dominance in North America. • However, France regained sugar-producing islands in the Caribbean and slave-trading outposts in Africa that the British had seized during the war.