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In the year of 1000 AD, Leif Erikson, son of Erik the Red, sailed the eastern coast of North America.
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This is the beginning of the Black Plague. It killed over 1/3 of the population on Europe.
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He traveled from Portugal to the southern tip of Africa. The tip bcame known as the Cape of Good Hope. He discontinued the voyage when they ran out of supplies.
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"In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." In 1492, Columbus discovered the Bahamas.
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The Conquistadors were active from the beginning of the 1400's to the 1600's . They slaughtered the native's and introduced many diseases that they had no immunity to.
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In 1517, Martin Luther, a German monk, nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Church. This got him labeled a heretic, and was ejected from the Church and defrocked. Defrocking if being removed from priesthood.
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on 1607, 105 colonists sent by London Company arived at the James River in Virginia. They named their colony Jamestown
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In 1614, John Rolfe married Pocahontas. In doing so, he helped stabilixe relations with the local tribe.
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In 1624, the West India Company sent 30 Dutch families to New Netherland (a strip of Easter coastline).
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Beginning in the 1700's, France started new outposts, or small military bases, in Detroit, New Orleans, and Saint Louis. The French started to trade furs, and grew wealthy.
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In 1756, he became a slave. Later in life, he earned enough money to free himself. He then worked to end slavery for the remainder of his life.
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The Stamp Act required the colonists to pay a tax whenever they bought paper.
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The Boston Massacre occures on March 5, 1770. Several Bostoners exited a nearby tavern, and started harrassing the British soldiers. the Bostoners attacked with stones and snowballs, and the redcoats opened fire.
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On the day od December 16, 1773, Bostoners disguised as Native Americans boarded a ship with crates of tea, and poured it into the harbor.
