First European Settlements in North America

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History 3.2

St. Augustine, Florida

First permanent Spanish speaking colony

Date started 1565

Pedro Menendez de Aviles

Founder

Appointed Governor by King Phillip II

Instructed to drive out pirates and settlers from other nations

Don Juan Ponce de Leon

Spanish explorer and treasure hunter

1513 claimed land for Spain

Named it La Florida “Land of Flowers”

Natural Resources

Good harbor

Mild climate

Coquina

Reason for exploration

To protect the trade from pirates

Jamestown, Virginia

First permanent English speaking colony.

Date started: 1607

Captain John Smith

First leader

Said “If you don’t work, you don’t eat.:

Captain Christopher Newport

An English explorer

Came over with Captain John Smith to Jamestown

John Rolfe

Responsible for growing a new type of tobacco

Powhatan

Native American leader of the Algonquin tribe.

Father of Pocahontas

Pocahontas

Daughter of Powhatan

Married to John Rolfe

Reported to have saved the life of Captain John Smith

Slavery and Indentured Servants

Began because of high demand for tobacco

Reason for exploration

Get rich from natural resources

Trade with the Virginia Company

Quebec, Canada

First permanent French speaking colony.

Started in 1608

Samuel de Champlain

Founder of Quebec

Reason for settlement

To trade beaver furs

Native Americans

Hurons – friends

Iroquois - enemies

Jacques Cartier

Explorer• 1535, Cartier sailed

up the St. Lawrence River

Common things for all colonists

Settled along the coast because it offered a good port.

Water was the natural resource all colonists depended on.