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Christopher Columbus discovered san salvador on his voyage to japan this was the first land he found.
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Coronado's led a great expedition from mexico to present-day Kansas
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This was not an unrealistic expectation, for when Hernando Cortes conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico.
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the king ordered him to find gold, spices, and a water passage from France to Asia.
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Hernando de Soto nine ships, 620 men, and 220 surviving horse sailed the ocean and landed in Charlotte Harbor, Florida
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He led early Spanish expeditions to the Great Plains and Lower Colorado River Valley.
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Pedro Menéndez de Avilés landed on what is now called Matanzas Bay and began the found the Presidio of San Agustin.
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He founded New France and Quebec City.
He is important to Canadian history because he made the first accurate map of the coast and he helped establish the settlements. -
was a late 16th-century attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement.
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John Rolfe is best remembered for having introduced tobacco as a commercial crop to Virginia colonists.
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Encouraged and armed by their Dutch and English trading partners, the Iroquois sought to expand their territory and monopolize the fur trade and the trade between European markets and the tribes of the western Great Lakes region.
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The founding of Jamestown, America’s first permanent English colony.
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Arrival of "20 and Odd" Blacks in late August of 1619 aboard a Dutch man of war. These blacks were sold/traded into servitude for supplies.
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On December 21, 1620, the Pilgrims began a new colony in what is today known as the Town of Plymouth.
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Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet mainly sailed down the Missipi River, starting in Lake Michigan and continuing until they reached Arkansas.
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The Pueblo killed 400 Spanish and drove the remaining 2,000 settlers out of the province.
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The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was founded in English North America by William Penn on March 4, 1681
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Eight nobles with a Royal Charter from Charles II.
In 1663, King Charles II issued a royal charter to eight nobles to settle the area south of Virginia. -
In 1732, James Oglethorpe was given a charter from King George II to create a new colony which he would name Georgia.