European Nations Settle North America

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Expansion, Exploration, and Encounters

Lesson 5
European Nations Settle

North America
Key Terms and People
New France area of the Americas explored and claimed by France
Jamestown first permanent English settlement in North America
Pilgrims group of English people who founded the colony of Plymouth in 1620
Puritans group of English people who founded a colony at Massachusetts Bay
in 1630
New Netherland Dutch colony begun in an area that is now New York
French and Indian War war between Britain and France over land in North
America
Metacom Native American leader who led an attack on the villages of
Massachusetts; also called King Philip
Before You Read

In the last lesson, you read about Spanish conquests in the Americas.
In this lesson, you will read about how other nations competed for
power in North America.
As You Read
Use a chart to record information about early settlements in North
America.
COMPETING CLAIMS IN NORTH Mississippi River all the way to its

AMERICA mouth at the Gulf of Mexico. The area
What new colonies were formed in became known as New France. The main
North America? activity in this colony was trading in fur.
In the early 1500s, the French began 1. What was the main economic
to explore North America. Jacques activity in New France?
Cartier discovered and named the St.
Lawrence River. He then followed it to
the site of what is now Montreal. In
1608, Samuel de Champlain sailed as far
as modern-day Quebec. In the next 100
years, the French explored and claimed
the area around the Great Lakes and the
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Lesson 5, continued
THE ENGLISH ARRIVE IN NORTH started other colonies along the Atlantic
AMERICA coast, and pushed westward. There the
Why did the English settle in English colonists interfered with North
Massachusetts? American French settlers.
The English also began to colonize The British and the French clashed
North America. The first permanent over the Ohio Valley in 1754. The fight
settlement was at Jamestown, in modern was called the French and Indian War.
Virginia, in 1607. The colony struggled When it ended in 1763, France was
at first. Many settlers died from disease, forced to give up all its land in North
hunger, or war with the native peoples. America to England.
Soon, farmers began to grow tobacco to The native peoples responded to the
meet the high demand for it in Europe. colonists in many different ways. Many
In 1620, a group known as Pilgrims worked closely with the French and
founded a second English colony in Dutch, joining in the fur trade and
Plymouth, in Massachusetts. These benefiting from it. Native Americans
settlers and others who followed were had stormier relations with English
deeply religious people who did not colonists. More than just trade, the
agree with the practices of the Church English wanted to settle the land and
of England. They were called Puritans. farm it. This was land that Native
Meanwhile, the Dutch also started a Americans would not be able to use for
new colony. They settled in the location hunting or growing their own food.
of modern New York and called it New Conflicts over land erupted into war
Netherland. Like the French, they traded several times. One of the bloodiest
fur. The colony became known as a conflicts was known as King Philip’s
home to people of many different War. The Native American ruler
cultures. Europeans also took possession Metacom (also known as King Philip)
of many islands of the Caribbean. There led an attack on colonial villages
they built tobacco and sugar plantations throughout Massachusetts. After a year
that used enslaved Africans as workers. of fierce fighting, the British colonists
2. In which two places did English defeated the Native Americans.
colonists frst settle? As in Spanish lands, the native
peoples suffered even more from disease
than from warfare. Thousands of Native
Americans died from European illnesses.
This made it impossible for them to
resist the growth of the colonies.
THE STRUGGLE FOR NORTH 3. Why did Native Americans lose their
AMERICA; NATIVE AMERICANS way of life?
RESPOND
How did native peoples respond to
the colonists?
The European powers began to fight
for control of North America. First, the
English forced the Dutch to give up
their colony. New Netherland was
renamed New York. The English also

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Lesson 5, continued
As you read this lesson, fill out the chart below by writing notes that
describe aspects of each European settlement.
1. New France
Explorers Reasons for exploration
2. Jamestown
Founders Significance of colony
3. Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies

Settlers Reasons for colonization
4. New Netherland
Land claims Reasons for colonization

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Expansion, Exploration, and Encounters

European Nations Settle

Before You Read

COMPETING CLAIMS IN NORTH Mississippi River all the way to its

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

232 Guided Reading Workbook

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

233 Guided Reading Workbook

3. Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay colonies

© Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

234 Guided Reading Workbook

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