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Title: Medieval and modern times; an introduction to the history of western Europe form the dissolution of the Roman empire to the present time
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Robinson, James Harvey, 1863-1936
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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nd the Spice Islands, and brought Java, Sumatra, andother tropical regions under Dutch control. In North America the chief rivals were England and France,both of which succeeded in establishing colonies in the earlypart of the seventeenth century. Englishmen settled at James-town in Virginia (1607), then in New England, Maryland,Pennsylvania, and elsewhere. The colonies owed their growthin part to the influx of refugees, — Puritans, Catholics, andQuakers, — who exiled themselves in the hope of gaining theright freely to enjoy their particular forms of religion.2 On theother hand, many came in order to better their fortunes inthe New World, and thousands of bond servants and slaveswere brought over as laborers. Just as Jamestown was being founded by the English theFrench were making their first successful settlement in NovaScotia and at Quebec. Although England made no attempt tooppose it, the French occupation of Canada progressed very 1 See above, pp. 232 ff. 2 See above, p. yj2.
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ENGLAND FRANCE and SPAIN IN AMERICA1750 0 100 200 SOO 400 500 t—I 1 1—-I 1 1 1_ Scale of_Miles THE M-N. WORKS Hoiv England became Queen of the Ocean 431 slowly. In 1673 Marquette, a Jesuit missionary, and Joliet, amerchant, explored a part of the Mississippi River.1 La Sallesailed down the great stream and named the new country whichhe entered, Louisiana, after his king. The city of New Orleanswas founded, near the mouth of the river, in 1718, and theFrench established a chain of forts between it and Montreal. The Contest between France and Englandfor Colonial Empire 89. The contest between England and France for thesupremacy in North America was responsible for almost con-tinuous border war, which burst out more fiercely with eachwar in the Old World. Finally, England was able, by the Treatyof Utrecht, to establish herself in the northern regions, forFrance thereby ceded to her Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, andthe borders of Hudson Bay. While the English in North Americaat the begin

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