United States History Student Edition

PHOTO: (t,c)North Wind Picture Archives/Alamy Stock Photo, (b)The Picture Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo. TEXT: Vespucci, Amerigo. 1504. Mundus Novus: Letter to Lorenzo Pietro di Medici. Trans. George Tyler Northrup, 1916. Princeton: Princeton University Press

The Dutch in New Amsterdam The Dutch began settling in North America in the 1620s. One of their main cities was called New Amsterdam, which would later become New York City. It was the most diverse and multicultural city in colonial America.

New Orleans The city of New Orleans is a vital location for trade on the Mississippi River, near the Gulf of Mexico. It was founded in 1718 by the French.

“ [W]e sailed for the space of two months and three days. Hitherto no land had appeared to us in that vast sea. In truth, how much we had suffered. . . .” —Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer, 1503

GO ONLINE

33

Explore the Student Edition eBook and find interactive maps, time lines, and tools.