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Created with the hope that it would find gold, silver and other trading commodities. They were meant to find inland waterways and to find a Indian network in which to establish trade. Was the company that founded Jamestown.
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The founding of the first English settlement.
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The first permanent European settlement in the Southwest, was established in 1610
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Though disliked by the King, Tobacco proved to be a very lucrative business. It is what is considered to have laid the ground work for what would become the United States.
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In 1626 Peter Minuit therefore “bought” Manhattan from Munsee Indians in order to not create another Black Legend.
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Indian leader who eventually led a war against the English using the Wampanoag and their allies in the fight. Mainly had to deal with land encroachment.
