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Period: Jan 1, 1492 to
European Colonization of North America
European powers colonized North America. -
Sep 8, 1492
Columbus Encountered New World
Sails over to Spanish islands -
Jun 9, 1534
Jocque Cartier sailed the St. Lawence
The king ordered him to find gold, spices -
Sep 8, 1539
Hernando de Sotos expedition of the Southwest
He lead expedition into the southern US -
Sep 8, 1542
Coronado's expedition from Mexico to Kansas
divided the expedition into small groups that exploered -
Sep 8, 1565
Spanish established St. Augustine, Flordia
Lnaded on Mantanzas Bay and found Presidio of San Augustin. -
Attempted Roanoke Colony
He offered each settler a plot of land in the "cittie of Raleigh" that they were sent to establish. -
Juan De Onate Founded Santa Fe
It was the second permanent Spanish colony within the present United States -
Jamestown, Virginia founded
the first permanent British settlement in North America -
Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec
The group sailed up the St. Lawrence and Saguenay rivers and explored the Gaspé Peninsula, -
John Rolfe introduced tobacco to Virginia
Rolfe named his Virginia-grown strain of the tobacco "Orinoco" -
First African slaves arrived in Virginia
First slaves in Jamestown Virginia. -
Plymouth, Massachusetts founded
the colony was merged with the Massachusetts Bay Colony and other territories -
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Beaver wars
known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars -
French began fur trade with Indians
World wide trade of animal fur -
Couth Carolina colony founded
when King Charles II gave the land to eight noble men known as The Lords Proprietors. -
Marquette and Joliet sailed down the Mississppi
a fur trader, undertook an expedition to explore the unsettled territory in North America from the Great Lakes -
The Pueblo Revolt
was an uprising of most of the Pueblo Indians against the Spanish colonizers -
Pennsylvania Colony founded
Minuit had agreed to help them establish a colony after having a falling out with Dutch officials. -
Georgia Colony founded
George II granted the Georgia trustees a charter for the colony a year earlier.