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Primarily Spain, Portugal, France, and Great Britain. In the end the British retained the eastern coast of the U.S. and large parts of eastern Canada. These weren't lost until the end of the American revolution.

France went on to control the middle section of what is today the U.S., which it sold in the Louisiana Purchase to the U.S. government for around $15 million in 1803. The land comprised roughly 1/3 of what is today the continental United States.

The Spanish maintained a small presence in California through the 1700s and had a large presence in Central America and in the Caribbean until the countries there established their independence.

Portugal and the Dutch were frequent traders in the Caribbean and along the new world trade routes, also:

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