Christopher Columbus started his famous voyage on August 3, 1492. After a dangerous three-month journey, the ships made landfall on October 12, 1492. They landed on Bahamian island that he named San Salvador. Columbus focused …show more content…
Although until Queen Elizabeth's rise to power the English had no interest in exploring. Between 1576 and 1578 John Davis and Martin Frobisher searched the Atlantic Coast. Queen Elizabeth granted permission to colonize America to Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh. In 1585, Sir Walter Raleigh sponsored a voyage to the Chesapeake Bay Region. England had taken the lead in colonizing the New World by the seventeenth century.
Jean Ribault directed a campaign through St. John's River in Florida in 1562. In 1564, Rene de Laudonniere followed the same path through St. Johns River. Before long the Spanish drove France out Florida. Samuel de Champlain investigated close to the South of Cape Cod and to the north of Nova Scotia and Port Royal. In 1608 he built a fort in Quebec. New France became populated with fishermen and ministers and had few forts and trading posts. Despite the fact French looked to colonize, settlement growth became repressed by conflicting policies.
The Dutch became committed to discovering the New World. Henry Hudson went on an exploration for the Dutch East India Company and made claim to the land along the Hudson River for the in 1609. The Dutch government gave an allowance to the Netherland Company for land between Virginia and New France in 1614. In 1624, the West India Company sent settlers to Fort Orange and Manhattan