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The Virginia Company
Created with the hope that it would find gold, silver and other trading commodities. They were meant to find inland waterways and to find a Indian network in which to establish trade. Was the company that founded Jamestown. -
Jamestown
The founding of the first English settlement. -
Santa Fe
The first permanent European settlement in the Southwest, was established in 1610 -
First Tobacco Crop Sent to England
Though disliked by the King, Tobacco proved to be a very lucrative business. It is what is considered to have laid the ground work for what would become the United States. -
Manhattan
In 1626 Peter Minuit therefore “bought” Manhattan from Munsee Indians in order to not create another Black Legend. -
Metacom slain
Indian leader who eventually led a war against the English using the Wampanoag and their allies in the fight. Mainly had to deal with land encroachment.
