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Columbus left Spain with sponsership from Crown of Castile and three ships: the Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Santa Clara. They were searching for the western route to Asia, but instead discovered the New World. Began Columbian Exchange (post-1492 era)
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Due to disease, massacres, and forced labor.
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The treaty divided the newly discovered lands between Crown of Portugal and Crown of Castile along a meridian.
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240,000 Europeans entered American ports.
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John Cabot: 1497, Labrador. Little was done to follow up his voyage.
Giovanni da Verrazano: 1524, North Carolina to Maine. This voyage encouraged the king. He now wanted a Northwest Passage.
Jaques Cartier: 1534, 1535, 1541: never found the Northwest passage, but he did find the St. Lawrence River. -
The Spanish claimed most of South/Central America. They destroyed the Aztec and Inca empires along with many lesser tribes. Alliances were also created.
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Colonists wanted to convert Native Americans to Christianity. At first, it was very violent. They burned down Native Americans' sacred places of worship. Adaption began in 1530s; writing systems also created.
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Issued charters for the colonization of the mid-Atlantic region of Virginia to joint stock companies.
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Jamestown was colonized.
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Samuel de Champlain established Quebec on the St. Lawrence River so he could control the trade down the Atlantic. He forged an alliance with Native Americans so he would have even more control.
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French traders and missionaries began to explore more of the Canada region along with the Mississippi River. Society of inclusion.
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This jumpstarted the economy in the English colonies.
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This was the legislature in colonial VA.
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Colonial population doubled every five years. The Algonquians shrank that amount.
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Colonists against Pequot Indians; fighting over control of land. Forty years of peace followed this.
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Home to large tobacco planters
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A large scale Native American slave trade began in the south. Extended until the 18th century.
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Colonists against Naragansetts; colonists invaded and burned villages.
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Main slave trade route.
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William Penn founded PA. It became America's breadbasket and a home to colonists seeking religious freedom.
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The French began colonizing at the bottom of the Mississippi River (Biloxi, Mobile)
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French had established colonies in a cresent shape: they started in Canada along St. Lawrence River and continued down all the way to Mississippi.
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French: superior council including Royal Governor, intendant, and the bishop of Quebec.
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Enthusiam returned to religion.
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War between England and France; fighting also broke out in the colonies.
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Translation of Seven Year's War in the French and English colonies. English vs. Native Americans and French.
