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Juan Ponce de Leon set sail to find the island of Bimini in 1513.
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A Spanish explorer, Hernando de Soto, landed in Florida in 1539.
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The Spanish founded a city that became St. Augustine on the east coast of Florida in 1565.
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In 1587 a group of settlers called The Lost Colony sailed from England.
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Robert La Salle sailed through the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi River in 1682.
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George Washington was born in 1732.
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James Madison was one of the leaders of the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
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George Washington became the first president of the United States in 1789.
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Thomas Jefferson became president of the United States in 1801.
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A Cherokee man named Sequoyah made up an alphabet for the Cherokee language in 1809.
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Andrew Jackson, who became president in 1829, was the first president to be born in poverty.
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David Crockett was killed in 1836.
