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In 1500's Spanish explorers traveled through the Southeast.
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Ponce De Leon sailed to the eastern shore of presentday Florida.
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In 1539 Hernando De Soto landed in Florida.
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In 1565 The Spanish found c.ity thatbecame St. Agustine.
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In 1587 a group of about 100 settlers sailed to England to establish a Roanoke colony in North America.
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In 1590 the Roanoke colony had disappared.
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In 1683 Robert La Salle sailed through the Mississippi River.
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In the 1700's the newly formed United States goverment tried to stop the European to moving westward.
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In 1789 George Washington was our first president.
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In the 1830's the United States government orderd the Native American groups of the region including the Cherokee,to give up their land.
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In 1860 Abraham Lincoln ran for president.
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The Civil War began in 1861.
