Tease Poem by imani halley

• Twice in 1560's Huguenots (French Protestants) planted colonies on south Atlantic coast
• 1565 the second colony near modern day Jacksonville was destroyed by a Spanish expedition led by Pedro Menendez de Aviles
• Menendez set up small outposts that he named St. Augustine to ensure Spanish domination
• 1598 Juan de Onate led a group of 500 soldiers and settlers to New Mexico.
• First the Pueblo people greeted them, and then Spaniards began to murder and rape so residents of Acoma killed several soldiers which led the soldiers to kill over 800 people.
• 1605 the French established Port Royal
• 1608 Samuel de Champlain set a trading post at an interior site and renamed it Quebec
• Quebec was the most defensible spot in the entire St. Lawrence River valley
• 1642 French made a second post called Montreal that the Indians called Hochelaga
• Before finding the settlements, fishermen were the major transporters of North American beaver pelts to France.
• Quebec and Montreal differed from New Spain characterized by scattered cities and direct supervision of Indian laborers.
• 1625 Jesuits or Black Robes (called by Indians) arrived in Quebec and tried to get indigenous peoples to live near French settlements and adopt European agricultural methods
• Indians desire to learn literacy was one of the critical factors that made them receptive to missionaries' spiritual message
• Jesuits, not like Franciscans saw that such aspects of native culture could go with Christian beliefs.
• In 1614 Henry Hudson explored a river and established an outpost now near present day Albany, New York
• Netherlands at that time a commercial power aimed at trade rather than colonization
• New Netherlands was a small outpost of a huge commercial empire that extended to Africa, Brazil, the Caribbean, and modern-day Indonesia
• Autocratic directors general ruled the colony
• An offer in 1629 of large land grants, or patroonships, to people who would bring fifty settlers to the province failed to attract takers.
• Had only about 5,000 inhabitants, some were Swedes and Finns who resided in former colony of New Sweden
• Indian allies of New France and New Netherlands fought because of fur-trade rivalries
• In 1640's the Iroquois who only traded with Dutch fought with Hurons and killed them with guns supplied with Dutch.
• 1624 England established a permanent foothold in smaller Caribbean islands and another one named Bados in 1627
• English was the first northern European nation to establish that
• English drove Spanish out of Jamaica in 1655
• In the 1640's English residents of Barbados found out that the islands soil and climate were good for making sugar cane
• Brazil being ruled by Dutch in the 1630's and 1640's copied both Brazilians' machinery and small-scale methods of production
• English decided in 1606 to settle in North America once more and again planed colonies that imitated Spanish model
• Began to prosper when abandoned that model and used settlements from other European powers
• Two major developments brought about 200,000 English men and women to North America.
• Competition began to help the economy grow
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