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Starting now is when the spanish missions began and ended about 1646. During these missions they established churches along rivers to spread catholoism and to mark their teritory.
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Hernando De Soto traveled up through what is now known as Florida and went all around and died during this mission in Luisiana.
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Britains first colony from 1607-1776. A small group of wealthy men had thought of colonizing it. Britain hoped it would bring them wonderful treasures and riches like the spanish colonies had gotten.
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The puritans wanted to colonize a place where they could practice worship freely. John Winthrop helped by joining and would later become the govenor.
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This was founded by James Oglethorpe. King george sent him there to establish a colony for debtors to work. Fort George was made in georgia to keep the spanish from invading too.
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The war was between the spanish and the British, they were fighting over trading in their colonies. A ship from Britain came and the Spanish searched for illegal goods. During one of the searches the captin of the ship Rebecca, Robert Jenkins, ear was cut off.
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One of the only attacks by the Spanish on Georgia in St. Simons island. this attack ocurred during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
