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John Cabot was a Genoese explorer of North America with help from England. He made many expeditions across the Northern Atlantic ocean.
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Like Columbus, he was an Italian explorer who played a large role in discovering the "New World."
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French explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France. He did lots of exploration on the St. Lawrence River.
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This was a period of time where new ideas, food, culture, diseases, and people from the Old World to the New World when Christopher Columbus discovered it.
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Italian explorer who discovered the "New World" with the help of sponsors from royalty of Spain. He was very significant in the exploration category because of his voyages to the Americas.
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This was during the 16th-century. It was a religious, political, and cultural upheaval of Catholic Europe. It set in place structures and beliefs that defined the modern era of Europe.
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Englishman who was also a writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer.He established a Roanoke Island colony in what is present-day North Carolina
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This colony was founded by a group of separatists. Its existence was relatively short.
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This was the date it was signed by 41 English colonists and prevented disagreements between Puritans and non-separatist pilgrims at Plymouth.
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These colonies included Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware. These were the most diverse out of the southern and New England colonies.
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They settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in present-day New England.
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These colonies were settled for mainly religious purposes.
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These were established in North America by England and had many major towns and religious beliefs present.
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The first Quakers in North America arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. This was significant because they converted a large amount of colonists to Quakerism.
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This was very different from the Great Awakening. Politics, philosophy, science and communications began to play a much bigger role in peoples lives and their reasoning for anything.
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This was a big time of religious revival within the American colonies. People were against mixing politics with religion at this point.
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Also known as the Seven Years War between France and England mainly over claiming new territory for themselves.
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Slavery was present in U.S. history, and each state abolished it slowly at different times.
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This was the relocation of more than 6 million African Americans from the South to more Northern Cities. They were harshly driven from their homes and this had a significant impact on urban life for U.S. citizens.
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This was a time period when many people were accused of witchcraft within their community and even had to go on trial to defend themselves.