Where did the European

countries claim land?

Unit 2, Lesson 3 & 4- Vocabulary

Agenda

• Vocabulary

• Review of claimed lands

Chartern (noun) an

official document from an authority to do something

Settlementn (noun) a

place to live that is set up in a new area

Jamestown

Which countries claimed land in the

new world?

Which countries claimed land in the

new world?SPAIN

FRANCE

ENGLAND

PORTUGAL

Which countries claimed land in the

new world?

Which countries claimed land in the

new world?Many other countries explored the New

World. Many of them claimed land: Dutch- New Amsterdam

Fort Orange Sweden- Fort Christina

Russia- Alaska/California

What were they looking for?

What were they looking for?

Many other countries explored the New World looking for the Northwest Passage.

Many explorers believed there was another way (or Northwest Passage) through North America that would take them east to Asia.

They mapped much of the northeast of North America (Hudson, Champlain, Cartier)

Claimed Lands