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around 11,400 BCE Paleo-Indians reach the great plains.
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Norse explored Leif Ericson is first European to arrive in America. Ariived in modern day Newfoundland and established the Norse settlement of Vinland.
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Spanish explorer Christopher Columbus with three ships the Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria land in what is the mdoern day bahamas and is long thought of as the first discoverer of America.
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Italian explorer John Cabot becomes first European to arrive in North America since Erikson did nearly 500 years before.
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In the Spring of 1541 Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto and his men are the first Europeans to reach the Mississippi river.
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Queen Elizabeth I grants Sir Walter Raleigh a charter to set up a colony in The New World. Raleigh sets up colony in present day North Carolina. The first english child born in the new world is here in 1587, she is named Virginia Dare. Dare and the 115 colonist vanished. What happened to the people of the colony of Roanoke is still a mystery today.
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The first permanent english settlement is founded in Virginia.
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The Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Unlike the colonies further south the Pilgrims had came to the new world to escape religious persecution. commonly associated with Thanksgiving.
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around 1200 B.C
Paleo-Indians cross into North America because of ice free corridor that connected Eastern Asia with Alaska.
