The document discusses the era of European colonization in North America between the 16th and 17th centuries. It prompts the reader to watch a video on the topic and then answer questions about why Spain created borderlands, why the French found expanding west difficult, who claimed the Mississippi River Valley, the reasons for British settlement in America including the lost colony of Roanoke, the hardships faced by the Jamestown colony, discussion of the Pilgrims and difficulties in Plymouth colony, and the founding of Providence and Hartford including new information learned from the video about reasons for colonization in the New World.