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There were many voyages of Christopher Columbus to find the new land. It took him 4 voyages to find the Caribbean.
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This gave Spain a good deal. The treaty did give Portugal a claim to brazil, but Spain gets the rest of the Americas.
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Ponce de Leon was a Carribean settler who had sailed with Columbus. He claimed the area for Spain. Naming it ¨La Florida¨.
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In 1519 Hernan Cortés and his soldiers landed on the Gulf Coast of Mexico. Their goal was to conquer the Aztec Empire.
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Late in 1606, the London Company sent 3 ships and 144 male colonists to Virginia. They sailed 60 miles up the broad James river and built the Jamestown colony.
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The Pilgrims sailed on a boat called the Mayflower and settled in now day Cape Cod. They called it Plymouth.
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Conflicts erupted in the Connecticut River valley over land and over the Pequot Indians trade with the dutch. The Pequot War ended with a brutal massacre.
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The colonial assembly passed the Toleration Act in 1649. It protected the right oa all Christians to practice their religion.
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two years after Cromwell died, a new Parliament invited the son of Charles I to become king. His reign, from 1660 to 1685, is called the restoration because it restored the English monarchy.
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The Wampanoag leader Metacomet, known to the English as King Phillip, led his people and others in attacks that destroyed colonial towns. In return, the colonists burned villages and crops.
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Pueblo Revolt was a rebellion that gathered Pueblo Indians. They successfully overthrew Spanish rule in Mexico for 12 years.
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Georgia the last of the 13 colonies is founded in 1733. It was founded by many people including James Oglethorpe.
