US AND CANADA EXPLORATION

​Exploration of the US and Canada

By John Gibbon

Lesson Overview

What were the causes and effects of exploration in the United States and Canada?

Essential Question:

identify the reasons people wanted to move to the United States and Canada

Explain the causes and effects of exploration of the United States and Canada

​Learners Can:

​type of laborer who had a contract with their employer to repay a loan.

Indentured Servant

​People sent on a religion mission.

​​Missionaries

People who move from place to place without a permanent home

​​Nomads

​​Vocabulary

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Open Ended

What might be a pull factor that influenced early explorers from Europe to journey across the ocean to the Americas?

1/ The first people to settle in North America came from a land bridge that existed between Asia and Alaska.
2/ People could have migrated as nomads, people who move from place to place without a permanent home, from Central and South America.

Native Americans lived undisturbed until the 1500s.

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Native Americans

Historians have two different theories about how Native Americans came to North America.

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Since the land was dry and there were no trees on the Great Plains, tribes like the Sioux hunted for buffalo (food, clothing, and shelter).

In the southeast, native tribes like the Creeks, the Cherokees, and the Choctaws grew corn and other crops because the land was great for farming.

The colder temperatures and dry land made it hard to farm. so fishing and hunting for animals like deer were the ways the tribes of the northeast, like the Iroquois and the Algonquian, had to survive.

​Native Americans

The Spanish were some of the first explorers of North America. They arrived in the mid-1500s in search of g___. The Spanish explored the southern part of the region and set up farms, cattle ranches, military posts, and religious buildings.

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Spanish Exploration And Colonization

The colony of New Spain was created in 1535. This included lands in the present-day United States, Mexico, and the Caribbean. In many cases, Spanish explorers and settlers were able to mine and collect gold and silver to take back to Spain. They also took control of many natural resources and worked to convert Native Americans to the Roman Catholic religion, which was the primary religion in Spain.

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​Tasked with finding the Fountain of Youth by the king of Spain. He found a land with flowering plants, and named in Florida.
He discovered the coast of Florida and explored inland toward the Florida Keys.

Ponce De Leon

Explored northern Mexico but later found Arizona and hoped to find gold,

Discovered the Grand Canyon. Later went to area known today as New Mexico

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

The French explored the northeastern part of North America, hoping to find a northwest passage to Asia. They built and set up trading posts and colonies around the Great Lakes. They were also greatly involved in the fishing and fur trading industries.

The colony of New France was created in 1534 in present-day northeast Canada. But the colony did not have a lot of settlers at first. The people who came to the area were mostly trappers, military, and missionaries, people sent on a religious mission.

Additionally, New France had trouble growing because of political issues happening at home in France.

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French Exploration and Colonization

​Tasked by the French king with locating a Northwest Passage to India that went around North America.

He landed on the coast of North Carolina, into New York Bay. He also made stops in present-day Rhode Island and Maine. He eventually sailed back to France.

Verrazzano

On his first voyage in 1534, Jacques Cartier landed in present-day Newfoundland. He then explored the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

He returned to France, after failing to find the Northwest Passage,

He came back, and explored more land in Canada along the St. Lawrence River.

​​Cartier

The British did not begin major exploration until the 1700s during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. This was almost 200 years after Spain began looking for passages to Asia.

Does this mean they were unsuccessful?

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British Exploration and Colonization

British Exploration and Colonization

Categorize

Options (7)

They wanted to find new trade routes.

The wanted to become rich with gold and silver.

The wanted to spread their religion.

They wanted to make friends with the natives.

They wanted to protect the rights of the native populations.

They wanted to learn about new religions.

They desired to control valuable resources.

Read each statement about WHY Europeans wanted to colonize North America.

Decide whether each statement is TRUE or FALSE.

Place each statement in the appropriate category.

TRUE

FALSE

​Indentured Servants and Slavery

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Multiple Choice

What caused slavery to occur during the colonization of North America?

• a. The settlers wanted free labor for their farms.

• b. The settlers needed the enslaved people to fight in wars.

• c. The settlers thought the enslaved people would create more businesses in the colonies.

Reorder

Place the events in chronological order.

• Native Americans lived undisturbed until the 1500s.

• Once European colonization began, Native Americans throughout Canada and the United States were forced off of their lands.

• European countries began setting up colonies in North America in search of wealth and power.

• Colonists used indentured servants to work on their plantations.

• Indentured servants were replaced with enslaved people who were shipped across the Atlantic Ocean.

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