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An Italian explorer sailing for Spain who believed that Asia (India) could be reached by sailing west from Europe. His first voyage was in 1492, wherein he discovered North America (Caribbean islands) and named it the West Indies. He will make four voyages to the new world without fully realizing what he had discovered. -
In 1607, the Jamestown colony was the first permanent English settlement in North America, Virginia. The colony gave England a foothold, then the Spanish took over, since Columbus's voyages in the 15th century. -
September 1620, a group of pilgrim men and women set sail for the new world aboard the Mayflower. The three-masted merchant landed on the shores of Cape Cod (Massachusetts). In December the Mayflower anchored at Plymouth Rock, where the pilgrims formed a settlement in New England. -
The Massachusetts Bay colony is one of the original settlements in Massachusetts, by a group of puritan refugees from England, in 1630. In 1629 they had obtained from king Charles 1 a charter, so they could trade and colonize in new England. -
Also known as the “seven years’ war” the french and Indian war was a war between Britain and France that Was from 1756 to 1763. Early 1750's France expanded the Ohio River, which brought it to conflict with the British colonies. Around 1763 Britain won the war.