A Geographic Introduction
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Review Major Geographic Features of
Borderland region of North America and
discuss how they affected colonization
Introduce lesson to compare colonization by
different European powers in different
locations
Great Lakes
Navigable Rivers and obstructions to travel
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A map of the United States of North America drawn from a number of critical researches / by A. Arrowsmith, geographer 1796. In
the collection of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia
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Connects the interior of North America to the
Atlantic Ocean
Chokepoints at Niagara (Falls), Detroit and
Mackinac
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, Carte des Cinq Grands Lacs du Canada (Paris, 1764). The Newberry Library.
From the James A. Gibson Library
at Brock University, 1819
A Plan of the Straits of St. Mary, and Michilimakinac, to shew the situation
& importance of the two westernmost settlements of Canada for the fur trade. C.175? In
the collection of the Library of Congress
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The British and French viewed their
colonization of the North America in some
ways the same – Glory for King
In other ways their motives and methods
differed significantly particularly concerning
the Native Americans
Through the readings and assignments you
will learn and help your classmates learn what
those differences were and how they affected
the outcome of colonial North America