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Christopher Columbus made miscalculations and discovered what would later be called America. He was looking for land and gold.
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This began the use of Africans as slaves in the Americas.
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Cortez attacks the Aztecs to get their gold.
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Cortes defeated the Aztecs, and they became slaves. Then after the war Tenochtitlan became Mexico.
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He wanted the Native Americans to become free people.
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The Incas lost their land, because the Spanish wanted their land and gold. They created more colonies.
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The people did not have the skills to survive on their own. They did not know how to build shelter or grow food.
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Jamestown was built on swamp land, and the English got sick. They couldn't drink the water and didn't have food. They learned how to grow tobacco and got organized and the colony thrived.
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Champlain was looking for the Northwest passage. Quebec became part of the colony of New France.
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The first law-making assembly in the English colonies was the Virginia House of Burgesses.
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The pilgrims arrived at Plymouth in December. They did not know how to grow food, so many of them died. The Wampanoag people helped them, and that began the Thanksgiving celebration.
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He was a free man, and he was the first African American man to sit in a legislative assembly.
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He built a colony based on Quaker beliefs.
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Debtors from English jails established the colony, Georgia.
