Europeans Nation Settle North America

  • 1494

    The Treaty of Tordesillas

    It divided the newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal
  • 1524

    North America

    He sailed to North America in search of a sea route to the pacific.
  • London

    A company of london investors received from King James a charter to found a colony in North America.
  • French

    French Jusuit priest Jacques Marquette and trader Louis Joilet explored the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi River
  • New France

    New France covered much of what is now the midwestern United States and eastern Canada.

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