First Colonies: 1565-1700 | American Colonial History | Jamestown, Plymouth, Puritans, Quakers

First Colonies: 1565-1700 | American Colonial History | Jamestown, Plymouth, Puritans, Quakers

First American colonies, 1565-1700 This presentation outlines the development of European colonies in the future United States and Canada, from 1565 to 1700. Before European colonization of North America, many thousands of Algonquian, Iroquoian, Souian, Muskogean, Pueblo, and other Native American speakers lived throughout the continent. The first successful European foothold above Mexico is the Spanish colony of Saint Augustine founded in modern Florida in 1565.