1.3: Competing Claims in North America AMERICAN HISTORY I UNIT 1 – EXPLORATION AND COLONIZATION DAY 3 – COMPETING CLAIMS IN NORTH AMERICA
1.3:
Competing
Claims in North
America
AMERICAN HISTORY I
UNIT 1 – EXPLORATION AND COLONIZATION
DAY 3 – COMPETING CLAIMS IN NORTH AMERICA
Objectives
TSWBAT:
Identify the major countries
competing for control in
North America in the 1500s.
Create a conclusion
regarding what happened
to the colonists at Roanoke
Island.
Competing Claims in North Amera
Name of
Settlement General Location
Reasons for
Establishment
New France
New Netherland
Massachusetts Bay
Christian missionary
and fur trading post
Fur trading post
Eastern Canada and
much of Midwest United
States
Upper east coast of
United States
Upper east coast of
United States Religious refuge
Fur trading post
(1) French Claims in N.
America
Giovanni da Verrazano –
tried to find a northwest
passage through the
Americas (1524)
Jacques Cartier – explored
the St. Lawrence River
Samuel de Champlain –
est. the 1st permanent
French settlement at
Quebec
France claimed the lands
surrounding the Mississippi
River
(2) Dutch Claims
(Netherlands)
Henry Hudson – tried to
seek a Northwest
passage (1609) (Hudson
River???)
Explored and claimed
the surrounding area
(would become New
Amsterdam) (New York)
Set up as a trade center
(3) English Claims
Sir Walter Raleigh
English aristocrat and
explorer
Funded his own voyages
Supported by Queen
Elizabeth I
Landed at Roanoke
Island (1584)
Made connections with
local Native Americans
Roanoke Voyages
2.6.14 – Bell Work
Take out your “White Doe” handout
We are going to go over the answers together
Journal: Review Questions:
Identify the major accomplishment of each of the
following major explorers:
Christopher Columbus
Giovanni da Verrazano
Henry Hudson
This day in black history…
1820
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~ First organized emigration of U.S. Blacks back to Africa, from New York to Sierra Leone, takes place
1867
Peabody Fund ~ The Peabody Fund is established to promote Black education in the South
Take out your 1.3 notes
Roanoke Colony (cont.)
1585 – 108 soldiers come to Roanoke to establish first English colony
1586 – Colonists and Native Americans at “war,” and colony is abandoned (Back to England)
1587 – Second settlement attempted
117 colonists come to Roanoke (Men, Women, Children)
Governor John White
Roanoke Colony (cont.) 1587 – John White returns to England to get
supplies
1590 – White returns to Roanoke, but finds the colony has disappeared
Thought to have maybe mixed with the Croatan Indians
Vocabulary
Giovanni da Verrazano
Henry Hudson
Roanoke Colony
The Lost Colony Activity
EQ: What do you think happened to the colonists at the Lost Colony?
Working in small groups (chosen by me), read the “Facts”
and the “Clues” sheet.
Highlight or underline any key information that helps you
try to crack the case.
Then, create a timeline of key events that occurred at the
colony from its ORIGINAL FOUNDING to its
DISAPPEARANCE. Use all dates/events on your Facts
sheet!
Dates for Timeline: 1584, 1585, 1586, 1587, Aug. 18 1587,
1590
Lastly, complete the storyboard portion of the assignment
(directions on next slide).
Storyboard:
Write your own ending to the story
Create a storyboard about what you think happened to the people of the Roanoke Colony.
Your storyboard should include 6 panels
Each panel should have a title explaining what’s going on in the picture
** Extra Credit to any group who ACTS OUT their story board for the
class!
Homework
Regional Differences
Reading, coloring, filling out
chart
DO NOT DO TRIPLE VENN
DIAGRAM ON OTHER SIDE
Finish your Story Boards!
Questions
1. When coming to the New World, what were the French and
Dutch originally looking for?
2. What famous city would become a capital for trade and
finance?
3. Where did the English attempt their first colony?