English colonies in North America

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English colonies in North America

• Virginia (1607)
• Massachusetts (1629)
• New Hampshire (1623)
• Connecticut (1633)
• Rhode Island (1636)
• Maryland (1634)

• Pennsylvania (1681)
• North and South Carolina (1710)
• Georgia (1732)

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English colonies from capture land

• Delaware (ex new Sweden) (1704)
• New York (ex New Netherlands) (1664)
• New Jersey (part of New Netherlands) (1664)

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French Colonies in North America

• Originally limited to fishing colonies in the
  Grand Banks off Newfoundland
• Gradually started to move inland when interest in
  fur trading began to grow
• 1603- Samuel Champlain explores the region and
  creates New France
• 1663- Louis XIV declares it a royal colony. Has
  3000 people by 1666, 15000 by 1689 and 85000 by
  1754, making it larger than all 13 British
  colonies

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France most south, England moves west

• France begins to creep down towards the
  Mississippi River near present day Chicago (with
  help from Joliet and Marquette)
• La Salle and Cavelier travel down the Mississippi
  River and create Louisiane and establish New
  Orleans
• English encroachment west towards the
  Appalachians (among other things) leads to the
  French Indian War (a splinter from the Seven
  Years War in Europe)

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English take Canada

• Battle of Quebec (1759) (AKA Plains of Abraham)
• Montcalm (Fr) v. Wolfe (Eng)
• After a three month siege of Quebec, the two
  nations battle for an hour. Wolfe died in the
  battle and Montcalm died the next day. In the end
  French forces in Canada came under more English
  pressure. By 1763, France ceded Canada to
  England. The French cede Louisiana to both
  England and Spain the same year.

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• Following the French defeat in the French and
  Indian War, the Treaty of Paris of February 10,
  1763, divided French territory on the North
  American continent between the British and the
  Spanish. The sole exception was the islands of
  Saint Pierre and Miquelon off the Canadian coast,
  retained as a fishing outpost the only remaining
  French possessions north of the Caribbean.