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- In the 1500`s spanish explolers traveled through the Southeast.
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- The spanish government set sail to find the island of bimini in 1513.
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- Hernando de Soto landed in Florida in 1539
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- The Spanish founded a city that became St Augstine pn the east coust of Florida in 1565.
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- In 1682 La Salle headed an expedition that sailed through the Grate Lacks and down the Mississippi.
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- In the late 1700`s the newly formed United Statsv government tried to helpend these conflicts.
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- By the mid1700`s the deerskin and fur trade was very important.
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- In the early 1800`s the Cherokee decided that forming a new government would help them hold onto there land.
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- The civil War began in 1861.
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- Reconstruction lasted from 1865 to 1877.
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- In 1950`s and 1960`s many people began to work for the civil rights movenement was Dr. Marthin Lurther King Jr.
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- A new law was written and congress passed the civil rights Act of 1964.