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Spain brought 4,000 Africans to the Caribbean Islands and forced them to work.
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Cortes destroys Aztec capital city, Tenochtitlan, and built Mexico City in it's place.
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Pizarro and his forces marched into the Inca Empire and took the Incan leader, Atahualpa, prisoner.
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The first colony at Roanoke Island was established. It was also mysteriously abandoned a year later.
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Champlain established a settlement on the banks of the St. Lawrence River. The settlement was Quebec.
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The Jamestown Colony was failing and so John Smith was sent to lead them. He helped the Jamestown Colony greatly.
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Farmers in Jamestown began to plant and sell tobacco. They started making a good profit and in the next few years were growing all of the tobacco they could sell.
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The Mayflower Compact was signed by 40 men and the Plymouth Colony was established in Virginia.
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Roger Williams was forced to leave Massachusetts Bay.
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Lord Baltimore got the assembly to pass the Act of Toleration.
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The English took over New Netherland and changed its name to New York, after the Duke of York.
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Jaques Marquette was a French missionary. He founded 2 missions in present day Michigan.
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Nathanial Bacon organized a force of 1,000 westerners and bagan attacking Native Americans.
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A charter from the king allowed New Hampshire to becdome a separate colony.
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William Penn arrived in his colony, Pennsylvania.
