Colonial Times 1607-1789: Difference between revisions

The colonies grew from [http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/300134/Jamestown-Colony/247836/Origins-1606-07 Jamestown] with the English at Chesapeake Bay to Quebec with the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_colonization_of_the_Americas French]. [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/02/AR2006090201097.html African slaves] were brought into Jamestown. The [http://www.nps.gov/history/NR/travel/kingston/colonization.htm Dutch] settled in New York and other areas. European colonization of North America (the "new world") was an intrusion of terrain controlled and established for centuries by [http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/native-americans-in-the-united-states/european-colonization.html Native Americans]. With the interactions of this melting pot of diverse people began the complex process of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_colonization_of_the_Americas European colonization] in the western hemisphere.