American History, From 1607 to 1816 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from American History, From 1607 to 1816 Geographical Conditions of the European Colonies in North America. (a) England, Spain, France, and Holland were rivals in their efforts to obtain possessions in the New World. While their claims were vast, the part explored was limited in extent. In 1750, the Spanish possessions in North America included Mexico, parts of the West Indies, Florida, and western United States from the Rockies to the Pacific. The English settled possessions stretched from Spanish Florida to Canada, and westward to the Appalachians, all the Dutch possessions having been absorbed. The French possessions included Canada and the Mississippi Valley, its three great cities being Quebec, Montreal and New Orleans. (b) The regions occupied by the different European nations varied regarding their advantages for settlement. The Spanish had settled in Mexico, whose tropical climate and resources were not well adapted for settlement by Europeans, used to a temperate climate. France, locating early on the St. Lawrence, was hampered by the northern cold. The coast line is an important point in making settlements. An indented coast furnishes good harbors, permitting easy commercial connection with the mother country during the colony's development. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.