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

First emigration from New York back to Africa

~ 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?