What were the four main countries that attemted to set up colonies in North America?

Question

I know England was one of them. What are the other three?

Answer 1

England, France, Holland and Spain. But also Sweden.

New Netherland comprised the areas of the north east Atlantic seaboard of the present-day United States that were visited by Dutch explorers and later settled and taken over by the Dutch West India Company.

The settlements were initially located on the Hudson River: Fort Nassau (1614-1617) in present-day Albany (later resettled as Fort Orange in 1624), and New Amsterdam, founded in 1625 on Manhattan Island.

New Netherland reached its maximum size after the Dutch absorbed the Swedish settlement of Fort Christina in 1655, thereby ending the North American colony of New Sweden.

New Netherland itself formally ended in 1674 after the Third Anglo-Dutch War: Dutch settlements passed to the English crown and New Amsterdam was renamed New York.

Answer 2

Spain and England and France are gimmes along with he Netherlands but what allot of people don't realize is that Portugal also had colonies in north America till the Treaty of Tordesillas
which forced them to only be able to claim colonies north-south meridian 370 leagues and east so she had to give the colonies it already had to Spain

Answer 3

Of Course, England had the largest presence.

The other "Traditional" THREE are:
1) Spain (Florida , Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California & Louisiana)

2) France (all the land from the Lousiana Purchase)

3) Netherlands (New York was originally New Amsterdam)

Also, Russian maintained whaling and fur-hunting stations along the Northern California Coast as WELL as selling us Alaska (Seward's Folly)

Answer 4

England, Spain, France and The Netherlands.

Answer 5

The United Kingdom, Spain, France, and the Netherlands.

Answer 6

England,France, Spain and Netherlands

Answer 7

England, France, Spain and Holland

Answer 8

Spain, Portugal, France

Answer 9

England, Spain, France, Holland are four of the countries....

As noted, Russia did have control over part of Alaska, but also attempted to colonize other areas (such as part of California)....

And Sweden tried to set up a colony on the east coast, but it was short-lived.

Answer 10

England, of course with not just the 13 colonies that became the United States as there's Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

France with what is now Quebec. They were also in Acadia before being forced out by the English. The evicted wound up in what is now Lousiana.

Spain with Florida, Mexico, and everything south.

The Dutch set up a colony named New Amsterdam before the English conquered it and re-named it after the Duke of York (hence New York).

The Swedes had a trading post in what is now Delaware before it was taken over by first the Dutch then Pennsylvania.

The Russians also had outposts in what is now Alaska.

That's six. I would discount the Swedes as a main one, but all of the others had significant attempts. (The Dutch wound up in the Caribbean, for example.)

Hope that helps.