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Spain inhabits and establishes multiple outposts throughout Florida.
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The English try to plant a permanent colony on Roanoke Island (outer banks of what is now North Carolina) but this is short lived.
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The English began a colony (Jamestown) in Chesapeake Bay
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Families became bigger and grew into colonies. People migrated and started more families in new places. Population grew and grew.
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The "frontier line" kept moving west steadily.
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The U.S. made these to make places more accessible and this helped transportation of people and goods.
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This would be the start of faster and easier transportation of goods and people on land.
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Steamboats were very popular and seen all the time in rivers. Steamboats turned the Great Lakes into an important transportation route.
