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Colonial settlements were mostly built along rivers. The settlers used the waterpower of the rivers to run their mills. Navigable rivers provided transportation between settlements for people and their goods.
There was no one Pueblo people. Many tribes built pueblos, in what is now New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas, so there were many rivers located near their settlements.
along the paths of lakes and rivers. along the paths of lakes and rivers.
Would the Wichitas and the Osages be open to trading? Would the rivers be suitable channels of commerce to Santa Fe? Would the Native peoples living along those rivers grant safe passage to traders?
The main river that was nearby the 1600's colonial New York was the Hudson River. Settlements were established along this river during this time. After Henry Hudson claimed this area for the Dutch, they settled here and called it New Netherlands.
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parents and children working together in mills
"New France" was along the St. Lawrence River.
Because these new machines ran on water power, most mills were built near rivers.
Tennessee Valley Authority was the New Deal that built dams to provide cheap electricity in some Southern states.
New Netherland settlements was created in 1614.
New Netherland settlements ended in 1674.