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Colonization on
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MyHistoryLab

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how did EnGLiSh
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The early 1600s brought major
changes to the eastern portion
of North America. Prior to that
time, Native Americans made up
the overwhelming majority of the
population and controlled virtually
the entire region. However, as
the seventeenth century began, nantUCKEt The Jethro Coffin House, a saltbox house built in 1686, is the oldest
surviving structure in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
European powers began staking
claims in the region and establishing NoN-INDIAN PoPULATIoN of THE THIRTEEN
settlements up and down the coast CoLoNIES To 1750
over the following decades. Such Colony 1650 1700 1750
changes shook historical Native New Hampshire 1,300 5,000 27,500
American trading and settlement Massachusetts (includes 16,600 55,900 188,000
patterns as members of some of Plymouth and Maine)
these nations lost their land to the rhode Island 800 5,900 33,200
newcomers and others entered Connecticut 4,100 26,000 111,300
successful alliances with Europeans New York 4,100 19,100 76,700
to navigate their changing world. New Jersey 14,000 71,400 SOurCE: Population, by race and by colony or locality: 1610–1780.” Table Eg1–59 in Historical Statistics of the united States, Earliest Times to the Present: Millennial Edition, edited by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael r. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright. New York: Cambridge university Press,
As the seventeenth century closed, Pennsylvania 18,000 119,700
the English in particular—having Delaware 200 2,500 287,00 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ISBN-9780511132971.Eg1-193
absorbed competing European Maryland 4,500 29,600 141,100
colonial claims of the Dutch and Virginia 18,700 58,600 231,000
Swedish and expanding ever deeper North Carolina 10,700 73,000
into the continent—had created a South Carolina 5,700 64,000
powerful presence. Georgia 5,200

K E y Q u ES t I o n S Use myhistoryLab Explorer to answer these questions:

Cause Where did English Comparison In what analysis How did the
settlers expand—and Native ways did English expansion face Iroquois Confederacy change
Americans suffer territorial competition from its European over this time?
losses—in North America during rivals? Trace the expansion of Iroquois
this period? Map the claims of other European control of new territories along its
Chart the growth of English nations in eastern North America. borders.
colonization.

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