Exploration & Settlement

  • 1400

    Exploration and Settlement

    Spain, England, and France were the countries that explored and settled most of the Americans
  • Columbus
    1492

    Columbus

    Columbus lands at Hispaniola in the Caribbean marketing the beginning of contact between Europeans and Native Americans.
  • Balboa
    1513

    Balboa

    Balboa discovers the Pacific Ocean in Panama
  • Tenochtitlan
    1521

    Tenochtitlan

    Cortes conquers the Aztecs at Tenochtitlan, Mexico City
  • Virginia Company

    Virginia Company

    Virginia Company established the first permanent English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607
  • Slavery

    Slavery

    A group of 20 Africans were brought by an English privateer ship to Jamestown, Virginia, marking the introduction of African slavery in the English colonies of North America.
  • The First French Explorers

    The First French Explorers

    French Explorers and missionaries became the first Europeans to explore the upper of the Mississippi River
  • King Louis XIV

    King Louis XIV

    The French Explored all the way down to the Gulf of Mexico claiming the entire river valley for King Louis XIV and becoming Louisiana.
  • New lifestyle

    New lifestyle

    My Grandparents moved to california in 2006 looking for a better lifestyle to give their kids.