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Columbus sailed across the atlantic ocean to a "new land"
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the fur trade was a worldwide industry with the saling of animal fur cause everybody wanted it
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he becomes the first european explorer to discover the St. Lawrence river. he explored the american lands for riches
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de Soto left Havana, Cuba, with nine ships, over 620 men and 220 surviving horses and landed at Charlotte Harbor, Flordia
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Coronado moved his army to the east because they didn't find any wealth where they were at
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they landed on Matanzas bay
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108 men went on shore at Roanoke Island. Their leader like guy was Sir Walter Raleigh. They built a fort and houses, planted crops, and looked for gold. Around a year later hurricanes and Indians forced them to go back to England. Also the survivors began starving because the Indians had stopped giving them food.
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he is credited with the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the colony of virginia
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wanted to take over new mexico. one day he sent men out to look for treasure that didn't exist.
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french explorer that established the city of quebec. became governer of new france in 1620
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a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the virginia company founded the first permanent english settlement in north america on the banks of the james river
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blacks who arrived in america that could not afford passage in to the colonies would become indentured servants
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during the reign of king james l, around 100 english men and woman, members of the english separatist church, sailed to the new world on the mayflower
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brutal wars fought by tribes of the iroquois confederacy against the french and the indian tribes who were their allies. the iroquois confederacy wanted to extended their trading activity and gain new territories
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the Marquette joliet expedition proved that the mississippi river flowed into the gulf of mexico
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an uprise of the pueblo people against spanish colonizers
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