Other Settlements Review

Describe initial Spanish exploration of the New World:
-To find gold, or the fountain of youth

Describe Spanish exploration of what would become US including their treatment of Indians:
-They struggled to find riches, and massacred the Indians

Describe French Exploration of the New World:
-They explored mouth of St. Lawrence River as new France, and built fortified fort on mouth of St. Lawrence and established Quebec

Describe French founding of New Orleans:
-Robert de La Salle was hoping to find Northwest Passage instead made way South on Miss River

Describe Dutch Exploration in North America:
-They formed a pernament settlement at Fort Nassau called New Netherlandsand built New Amsterdam

Describe the discovery of Pennsylvania:
-Pennsylvania beganas a debt paid by King Charles II to Quaker William Penn. The King gave Penn the land as a proprietary colony