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During this time period the Spanish, French, and English colonized North America
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Columbus and the Spanish went on a voyage and found the new world
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He joined Francisco Pizarro on an expedition in pursuit of rumors of gold located in the region that is now northwestern Colombia, on the Pacific coast.
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Cartier sailed up the St. Lawerence River and had in fact discovered an important waterway into the vast areas of Canada
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He was going to find what was a rumor of the Seven Golden Cities in the North, but instead found the Grandy Canyon and other major physical landmarks of the region.
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The Spanish went on an expedition and when they landed they found what is now St. Augustine, Flordia
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It was the first to include women and children to
create a stable English colony on the Atlantic coast. Soon the
colonists agreed that White should return to England for supplies.
White was unable to return to Roanoke for three years, however,
due to French pirate attacks and England’s war with Spain.
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Juan de Onate went on an expedition and found what is now Santa Fe.
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Worldwide industry dealing in the sale and trade of animal fur.
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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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Samuel de Champlain was a French explorer and navigator who mapped much of northeastern North America and started a settlement in Quebec.
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He introduced the tobacco plant to the colony and it eventually made them rich. Then he planted the first one in 1612
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Aboard a Dutch man of war, These blacks were sold/traded into servitude for supplies.
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This colony occupied most of the southeastern portion of the modern state of Massachusetts.
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Intermittent series of conflicts fought in the late 17th century in eastern North America, in which the Iroquois sought to expand their territory and take control of the role of middleman in the fur trade between the French and the more primitive tribes of the west.
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King Charles II gave the land to eight noble men known as The Lords Proprietors. At the time, the province included both North Carolina and South Carolina. North and South Carolina became separate royal colonies in 1729.
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They sail down the Mississippi to explore and find new trade.
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Revolt of the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico and Otermín's Attempted Reconquest.
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William Penn founded Pennsylvania with a land grant that was owed his deceased Father and his goal was to create a colony that allowed freedom of religion.
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Georgia's Trustees, Oglethorpe and the twenty-one other men, established that no man was to make profit off the settlement