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Columbus was going to Cuba to trade, but ended up in the Bahamas. He had 3 ships, but the Santa Maria was his flagship.
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Hispaniola wanted slaves so they didn't have to do the work.
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Cortez sails to the capital of the Aztec empire.
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Hernan Cortez received the surrender from the Aztec people.
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Bartrlome De Las Casas did not like Indian slavery and wanted it became the "Protector of the Indians".
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Pizarro founds and calls Lima, Peru the City of the Kings, after he defeated the Incas.
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John White gets home to Roanoke Island and finds everyone gone. It is still a mystery today, how everyone in the colony disappeared.
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The English started a new settlement called Jamestown, on the banks of the James River. It was started by 100 members of the Virginia Company.
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Champlain was sent by Dugua to start a new french colony. He was successful, it was called Quebec.
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Governor George Yardley made a legislative group from the 13 colonies. It met for the first time in 1619 at a church in Jamestown to set the price for selling tobacco.
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The Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth for religious freedom.
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Mathias de Sousa was an indentured servant and worked for Father Andrew White from 1634-1638, when he became a free man. He traded furs and other goods.
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William Penn established Pennsylvania for religious freedom in America.
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James Oglethorpe was the one who planned and founded Georgia. He had 114 colonists follow him up the bluff from Savannah.
