Early European possessions in North America included Spanish Florida, Spanish New Mexico, the English colonies of Virginia (with its North Atlantic offshoot, Bermuda) and New England, the French colonies of Acadia and Canada, the Swedish colony of New Sweden, and the Dutch New Netherland.ther European nations soon disputed the terms of the Treaty of Tordesillas. England and France attempted to plant colonies in the Americas in the 16th century, but these failed. England and France succeeded in establishing permanent colonies in the following century, along with the Dutch Republic.
If all of the Earth's ice sheets and glaciers were to melt, sea level could be up to 265 feet (80 meters) above current mean sea level.
Solution. 1  True. New Orleans is feet below sea level. 2  False. feet below sea level is 8 feet above sea level.... 3  True. New Orleans is feet below sea level (see part (a)). 4  True. Seattle is feet above sea level because feet above or below sea level is the same as being at sea level. 5  True. Seattle is feet below sea level (see part (d)). 6  True.