france by Tyler Raynes https://padlet.com/traynes761/2jm3ajlqjl8u Made with a curious mind en-us 2018-01-18 14:42:57 UTC 2018-01-18 15:23:45 UTC hello@padlet.com dutch traynes761 https://padlet.com/traynes761/2jm3ajlqjl8u/wish/222441645 After some early trading expeditions, the first Dutch settlement in the Americas was founded in 1615: Fort Nassau, on Castle Island along the Hudson, near present-day Albany. The settlement served mostly as an outpost for trading in fur with the native Lenape tribespeople, but was later replaced by Fort Orange.Sponsored by the West India Company, 30 families arrived in North America in 1624, establishing a settlement on present-day Manhattan. Much like English colonists in Virginia, however, the Dutch settlers did not take much of an interest in agriculture, and focused on the more lucrative fur trade.us-history/...america/.../french-and-dutch-exploration.

French, Dutch, and English explorers began to make inroads into the Americans in the late 1500s and early 1600s. ... Gold, silver, and furs attracted European exploration, colonization, and competition in the New World. ... The Spanish lost their stronghold in North America as the French ...
]]> 2018-01-18 14:44:10 UTC https://padlet.com/traynes761/2jm3ajlqjl8u/wish/222441645 france traynes761 https://padlet.com/traynes761/2jm3ajlqjl8u/wish/222441692 Samuel de Champlain was employed in the interests of successive fur-trading monopolies and sailed into the St. Lawrence in 1603. In the next year he was on the Bay of Fundy and had a share in founding the first French colony in North America—that of Port-Royal, (now Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia).Jan 3, 2018 The French colonization of the Americas began in the 16th century, and continued on into the following centuries as France established a colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere. France founded colonies in much of eastern North America, on a number of Caribbean islands, and in South America. Most colonies were ...]]> 2018-01-18 14:44:15 UTC https://padlet.com/traynes761/2jm3ajlqjl8u/wish/222441692 spain traynes761 https://padlet.com/traynes761/2jm3ajlqjl8u/wish/222447397 Beginning with the 1492 arrival of Christopher Columbus in the Caribbean and continuing control of vast territory for over three centuries, the Spanish Empire would expand across the Caribbean Islands, half of South America, most of Central America and much of North America (including present day Mexico, Florida and .The Spanish claim to territories that are today the United States rested upon the16th century exploits of Ponce de Leon, Hernando De Soto, and Francisco Vázquez de Coronado. St. Augustine in Florida was established as a Spanish fort in 1565, the first permanent settlement in what would become the United States.]]> 2018-01-18 14:55:08 UTC https://padlet.com/traynes761/2jm3ajlqjl8u/wish/222447397