Exploration and Native Americans

Merchant family in Genoa

Attempted to find an alternate route to Asia

Reached the New World by accident

Commissioned by the English and Dutch to find the Northwest Passage

Sailed up what would be called the Hudson River and along what would be called the Hudson Bay

Many of the English discoveries and territories were not as fruitful as the Spanish ones

The Government hired “privateers”

That’s a nice way of saying pirate

English Privateers raided Spanish ships

Privateers needed layovers stops

English colonies were not as fruitful as Spanish ones