By London hill

In 1608 Champlain settles Quebec In 1673 Marquette and Joliet on the banks

of the Mississippi In 1682 La Salle claims the valley of the

Mississippi Eng

Not long after the English colonies of north America the Dutch began to construct settlements of their own

By 1626 peter minuet was govern of new Netherlands

The Dutch bought Manhattan island from the Indians that lived there

The Indian ideas about land weren’t the same of those of settlers

By 1630 new Amsterdam had about 200 people in 30 houses It also had a counting house where workers could keep track of furs and money and house for storing food and fur.

For protection the colonists built a wall with big blocks of stone.

In 1680swedish settlers founded a colony of new Sweden

New Sweden included parts of present-day Pennsylvania, new jersey and Delaware

While Spain and England new France grow slowly

Spain and England were building colonies while in the north America & France were calming more land

Jacques Cartier created new France Samuel de Champlain to find a place to

build a settlements

The French and Dutch both began build settlement s in north America in the 1600’s

The both wanted to control the fur trade Which often lead to fighting They also had trouble brining settlelers to

north America So the population remind low