4A timeline

By 2kate4
  • Peter Minuit, Purchased Manhattan for $24
    Oct 22, 1580

    Peter Minuit, Purchased Manhattan for $24

    Peter Minuit, Pierre Minuit or Peter Minnewit was a Walloon from Wesel, in present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, then part of the Duchy of Clèves. He was the Director-General of the Dutch colony of New Netherland from 1626 until 1633

  • Sir Walter Raleigh, Writer and Explorer

    Sir Walter Raleigh is a famed English writer, poet, courtier and explorer. He was responsible for establishing the first English colony in the New World, on June 4, 1584, at Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina

  • Founding the 13 American Colonies

    Everybody remembers Jamestown, Capt. John Smith, Pocahontas and all the rest. But do you remember Roanoke? In 1585, after a small scouting expedition had returned from North America with two Native Americans and many astonishing stories.