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Christopher Columbus sets sail and discovers America.
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He discovered and explored the St. Lawrence River in present day Quebec, Canada.
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Hernando de Soto traveled through out the southeastern region of what is today the United States in search of riches.
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Coronado went on this expedition to find the "Seven Gold Cities" to the north of what is Mexico today.
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The city was built to defend trade routes and claimed land for the Spanish empire.
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There were two failed attempts at making the Roanoke Colony.
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The Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the bank of the James River.
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He established the French settlement that is now Quebec City.
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Juan de Onate founded Santa Fe and moved the capital of "New Spain" to present day Sante Fe.
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The tobacco he grew developed into Virginia's first profitable export.
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The French begin trading fur with a Native American tribe, the Huron tribe.
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African captives were brought on ship to America.
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English men and women sail to America and make the first permanant settlement of Europeans in New England.
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A Series of battles between the Iroquois tribe and the French.
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It was settled by the English and later became the eighth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
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Marquette and Joliet found themselves on the Missisppi River.
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It was a war brought about by years of cruelty from the Spanish on the native people.
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James Oglethorpe from England founded the Georgia colony.