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This time period the Spaninsh, the English, and the French founded North America.
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Columbus, sailing for the Spanish Empire, encountered the New World for the first time.
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The chief of the tribe that they found let two of his sons go abord the ship and travle back to France with Cartier.
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Hernando de Soto was the first person to see modern day Arkansas and the Mississippi River.
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These men descovered the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River.
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This was the capital of Florida until it was changed to Tallahassee in 1824.
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The Roanoke Colony was a 16th century attempt to astablish an English settlement
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Founded settelments in Southwest America
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Founded the first perminate English settlement on the bank of the James River.
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He was assinated and his power as King was handed down to his wife.
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Played a major role in civilization for over 300 years.
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Expirimented with tabbacco, and begin using seed in the West Indies to make the first profitable export.
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Blacks who arrived in America that could not afford passage in to the colonies would become indentured servants.
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This was colonized by the fisrt European settelers off the Maylower.
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Were the first to discover and map the Mississippi River.
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War between the Iroquois Indians and their English trading partners.
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Fish, forests (timber) and good agricultural land. Farming and Plantations were important. Exported agricultural products to other colonies
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They killed 400 Spanish and drove the remaining 2000 out of province.
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The Middle Colonies were the big food producing region that included corn and wheat and livestock including beef and pork. Other industries included the production of iron ore, lumber, textiles, furs and shipbuilding - refer to Colonial Times.
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Fish, forests (timber) and good agricultural land. Farming and Plantations were important. Exported agricultural products to other colonies