English and French Settlers
Isabella Cruz
Jamestown
- settlement chartered by King James
- 1607: settled on the coast of Virginia
- first English settlement in North America
Pilgrims
- A group of Englishmen wanting religious freedom
- founded the second English colony in 1620 in Plymouth, Massachusetts
Horrible Histories - Pilgrim Rap
Pruitans
- Another group of Englishmen wanting religious freedom from the Anglican Church
- settled in Massachusetts creating a "New England"
Samuel de Champlain
- French explorer
- 1608: sailed up the St. Lawrence River
- founded Quebec known as "New France"
French and Indian War
- the French vs. the British
- fought over land in the Ohio Valley
- war was apart of the Seven Years War
- the British win gaining the eastern half of North America