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Columbus landed at the island of San Salvador in Caribbean on this day. He later told Europeans about the territory, and they began to colonize in North and South America.
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On this date 144 english men colonized in Virgina along the Virgina River. It was named after King James 1.
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On this date the Mayflower landed at Cape Cod and named the colony Plymouth
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In 1628 a group of Puritans, led by John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley, convinced the king to let them have an area of land between the Massachusetts Bay and Charles River.
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The expedition against New Amsterdam was organized by the Duke of York,then King James II. and the city named in his honor.
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William Penn founded Pennsylvania with a land grant that was owed his dead Father. His goal was to create a colony that allowed religious freedom.
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Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan of 1754 was an attempt to solve problems faced by the Colonist.
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George Washington's Virginia militia had failed to reach the fort before the arrival of the French.
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The French & Indian War concludes
