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Where did the European
countries claim land?
Unit 2, Lesson 3 & 4- Vocabulary
Agenda• Vocabulary
• Review of claimed lands
Chartern (noun) an
official document from an authority to do something
Settlementn (noun) a
place to live that is set up in a new area
Jamestown
Which countries claimed land in the
new world?SPAIN
FRANCE
ENGLAND
PORTUGAL
Which countries claimed land in the
new world?Many other countries explored the New World. Many of them claimed
land: Dutch- New Amsterdam
Fort Orange Sweden- Fort Christina
Russia- Alaska/California
What were they looking for?
Many other countries explored the New World looking for the Northwest Passage.
Many explorers believed there was another way (or Northwest Passage) through North America that would take them east to Asia.
They mapped much of the northeast of North America (Hudson, Champlain, Cartier)
Claimed Lands
Lesson 4-Questions
• Why did colonists in the Americas often build their homes near bodies of water?• Colonists settled near bodies of
water so that they could move people and supplies easily and have access to fish and other supplies. • What are a few words we use
today that come from another language?• Words like alligator, cruise,
parade, and yam come from other languages.