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Columbus found the New World in seach of getting to the indias
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Cartier sailed into the waters of the St. Lawrence River in eastern Canada. Although he couldn't travel up the river all the way to Asia, Cartier had in fact discovered an important waterway into the vast areas of Canada.
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The expedition lasted 4 years. in 1539 Hernando left Havana Cuba, with nine ships, over 620 men and 220 surving horses landed a Charlotte Harbor, Florida
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Francisco Vazquez de Coronado y Lujan was a Spanish conquistador and explorer, who led a great expedition from Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542
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on September 8, 1565 Pedro Menendez de Aviles landed on the shore of what is now called Matsnzas Bay and began the founding of the Presidio of San Agustin
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also known as the Lost Colony, on Roanoke Island in Dare County, North Carolina, United States, was a late 16th-century attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement.
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He led early Spanish expeditions to the Great Plains and Lower Colorado River Valley
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104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I.
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was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. He founded New France and Quebec City on July 3, 1608
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John Rolfe is best remembered for having introduced tobacco as a commercial crop to Virginia colonists.
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Whatever the status of these first Africans to arrive at Jamestown, it is clear that by 1640, at least one African had been declared a slave. This African was ordered by the court "to serve his said master or his assigns for the time of his natural life here or elsewhere."
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also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars
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exploring the Mississippi in 1673. The expedition went down the Wisconsin River until, on June 17, they suddenly came to a broad, majestic stream -- the Mississippi River
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was an uprising of most of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México, present day New Mexico.