Off to the Races: A Land Up for Grabs

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Off to the Races A Land Up
for Grabs

• Featuring England, France, and Spain in a
  Massive (Illegal?) Land Grab That Rocked the
  World

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Why Settle/Colonize?

• Gold, God, and Glory!
• Main Reason Water Route to The Spice Land of
  East Indies and China
• Others
• Gold, silver, and natural resources
• Convert Native Americans to Christianity

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Spains Claims

• Americus Vespucius, South America 1499
• 1507 map with Americus name leads to America
• First to consider the idea of New World

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Spains Claims, cont.

• Ponce de Leon, Florida 1513
• Fountain of Youth
• Named Florida after its flowers
• Died from arrow wound from natives, 1521

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Spains Claims, cont.

• Cortes, Tenochtitlan, 1519
• Gold n Glory Made Spain filthy rich
• Tricked Aztecs to gain control of city
• Later, Baja California, Honduras

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Spains Claims, cont.

• Pizarro, Peru, 1531
• Conquered Incan Empire with
• guns, 300 men, and 100 horses
• Leader executed germs kill thousands

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Spains Claims, cont.

• De Soto, southeastern US, 1539
• Looking for Seven Cities of Cibola
• 600-men expedition fought with natives
• Died on exploration

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Conquistadors

• Spanish mercenaries

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Pirates
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The Real Pirates of the Caribbean, 1520s-1700

• English, French, Dutch ships begin
  plundering/attacking Spanish ships on route home
• Method
• Henry Morgan and torture
• Port Royal, Jamaica

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French Claims

• Attempt to find Northwest Passage to East Asia
• Ended up establishing fur trade with Native
  Americans

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French Claims

• All land west of Mississippi River by Samuel de
  Champlain, Father Marquette, and Louis Joliet
• Named Louisiana after King Louis XIV

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French Claims, cont.

• Acadie (modern-day Nova Scotia, Newfoundland)

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English Settlers

• The first Pirates of America (privateers)
• Started out by plundering and stealing gold from
  Spanish ships along East Coast

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English Settlements, cont.

• For-profit individuals/companies settled
• Task Find route to Asia, gold, crops, etc.
• Roanoke, 1585-1588
• Jamestown, 1607
• Tobacco

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The Lost Colony of Roanoke, 1585-1588

• First English settlement in North America
• Settlement stories

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Jamestown, 1607

• Established for gold mining and permanent
  foothold in N.A. for England