| New France | Quebec and Nova Scotia; first permanent settlement of France |
| Rhode Island | tied to Roger Williams; home to religious refugees (such as Anne Hutchinson); granted a charter in 1663 guaranteeing religious freedom |
| Spain and Portugal | initially colonized the Western Hemisphere |
| St. Augustine, Florida (1565) | first site of Spain's colonization |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | Spain = Western Hemisphere except Brazil; Portugal = Asia |
| causes of decline of economic benefits for Spain (1640s) | incresed pressure from other imperial nations, domestic problems in Spain itself, declining profits b/c of expanse of maintaining it's colonies, enormous military expenditures for protection of colonies, fleet to defend trade ships |
| rise of nation-states in Europe | factor in stimulating explorations to the New World |
| southern colonies | Maryland, the Carolinas, Georgia |
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