France founded colonies in much of eastern North America and established forts and settlements that would become Quebec and Montreal in Canada; Detroit, Green Bay, St. Louis, Mobile, Baton Rouge and New Orleans in the United States. For the british, their earliest settlements were in Virginia and Massachusetts, but quickly spread along the Atlantic coast, from Maine to down Georgia, and even into the continent’s interior
as far as the Mississippi River. The spanish garnered most of the southern and southwestern
regions, as well as sections of the coasts of California. Some of their settlements included St. Augustine, Florida, New Mexico, and numerous cities in Texas and California. The Dutch controlled the Hudson River Valley: including some places that are present day Albany and New York City.
