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English settlers attempt to set up permanent colonies in North America. This happened in the late 1500s.
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Sir Walter Raleigh organized one of the first attempts to make a colony. THe first colony was located on Roanoke Island off the coast of present-day North Carolina.
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After John White comes back from getting supplies in England, he finds the Roanoke Island colony abbandoned. No one has ever found out what happened. All that was left is a tree carving.
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England had settled its first permanent colony at Jamestown, Virginia.
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The British moved west in order to trade with the American Indians in the Indiana area.
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Cheif La Demoiselle of the Piankashaw Indians set up a new village Pickawillany, in order to be closer to the British traders. Other Miami Indians soon followed. Soon the American Indians at Pickawillany signed a treaty with the British.
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The French and the British along with Indians on both sides went to war over control of the land and fur trade.
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France was starting to lose control over the war and started running out of supplies.
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France lost the French and Indian War to the British. The Peace of Paris was signed by both sides causing most of the French territory to the British.
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Pontiac led a rebellion agaisnt the British were the Indians captured multiple British forts. Pontiac lost to the British in what became Pontiac's War.
