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Columbus, selling for the Spanish empire
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When French navigator Jacques Cartier left France by boat in April 1534, the king ordered him to find gold, spices (which were valuable at that time), and a water passage from France to Asia.
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De Soto then began to assemble his expedition in Spain. He put together an expedition involving initially six ships outfitted at his own expense.
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Finding no wealth in Cibola or the surroundings, Coronado moved his army east to the pueblos around Albuquerque, on the Rio Grande River, in September 1540.
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On September 8, 1565, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés landed on the shore of what is now called Matanzas Bay and began the founding of the Presidio of San Agustin. Later the settlement would be called St. Augustine, Florida
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The Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island in Dare County, present-day North Carolina, United States, was a late 16th-century attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement.
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Four hundred years ago, Spanish explorers measured success by the amounts of silver and gold they found. After a 700-mile miracle trek through the Chihuahuan desert, Don Juan de Oñate sent small search parties in all directions to search for treasure. None was found, but the expedition continued.
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The French traders obtained furs from the Huron Indians and, later, from the Ottawa.
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a group called the virginia company founded the first permanent english settlement in North Americia
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In 1608, Champlain returned to Canada to establish a fur trading post. He chose a site along the St. Lawrence River and named it Quebec. It became the first permanent settlement in New France.
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John Rolfe arrived in Jamestown along with 150 other settlers in 1610, as part of a new charter organized by the Virginia Company. He began experimenting with growing tobacco, eventually using seeds grown in the West Indies to develop Virginia’s first profitable export
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Virginia's first Africans arrived at Point Comfort, on the James River, late in August 1619.
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Instead it reached the shores of what is today known as Cape Cod, Massachusetts. On December 21, 1620, the Pilgrims began a new colony in what is today known as the Town of Plymouth.
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The Governor had been hearing tales of a mighty river to the south, and it was this river that Marquette and Joliet were being sent to find.
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the charismatic Tewa leader Popé coordinated a successful rebellion against the Spaniards, known as The Great Pueblo Revolt. Throughout the upper Rio Grande basin north of El Paso to Taos, Tewa, Tiwa, Hopi, Zuni and other Keresan-speaking pueblos, and even the non-pueblo Apaches simultaneously rose up against the Spanish.
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illiam Penn founded Pennsylvania with a land grant that was owed his deceased Father. His goal was to create a colony that allowed for freedom of religion due to his desire to protect himself and fellow Quakers from persecution
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were terrifying and brutal wars fought by tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy against the French and the Indian tribes who were their allies, including the Huron, Algonquins and the Mohicans. The Iroquois Confederacy, and in particular the Mohawk tribe, had established trading links with Dutch exchanging beaver pelts for guns.
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King Charles II gave the land to eight noble men known as The Lords Proprietors. At the time, the province included both North Carolina and South Carolina.
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Georgia's Trustees, Oglethorpe and the twenty-one other men, established that no man was to make profit off the settlement. Once the charter was finalized the men brought it to the attention of King George II.