The The explorers first found good fishing grounds near Newfoundland. first found good fishing grounds near Newfoundland., Humphrey Gilbert and Walter Raleigh warned their country's leader that Spain was becoming powerful, The capital city was named New Amsterdam., Peter Minuit was the governor who bought the use of Manhattan Island from the Indians., The explorers wanted to find a Northwest Passage to the Pacific Ocean., The goal was to establish a colony in America that would bring wealth and power to the country and allow the gospel to be taken to the Indians., The name of the trading town was Quebec., All the colonists disappeared from the colony., Peter Stuyvesant wanted this colony to be a godly one., Samuel de Champlain made an agreement with the Iroquois and Hurons., The land where the colony started had plenty of fruit and animals that could be used for food., Verrazzano, Cartier, and Champlain explored along the Saint Lawrence River., The colonists’ home country wanted the colony to make money by trade., Few people wanted to settle in the colony because of the cold weather., The colony failed because fighting broke out between the colonists and the Indians, the colonists did not work hard enough to grow food, and the supply ships were delayed by war..

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