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Jan 17, 1492
Christopher Columbus
He recounted his four voyages to the Americas. -
Jan 17, 1542
La Relacion
Is a report by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca stating his voyage of 8 years wandering through Florida. -
Thomas Harriot
One of his most influential writings was called "A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia" was published... -
Puritans
Many of the settlers in the 1600s were Puritans. This was a group of English Protestants who had sought to "purify" the Church of England and return to simpler ways of worshiping. -
"Father of New France"
Samuel de Champlain wrote this and more vivid accounts of New England and the Iroquois. -
Jamestown
where the first permanent colony was established at. -
William Wood
noted that the Native Americans "took the first ship they saw for a walking island, the mast to be a tree, the sail white clouds." -
William Bradford
governor of Plymouth Plantation. Described North America as "a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild clouds." -
First Book
The first book that was issued in North American colonies was called "Bay Psalm Book" -
First woman publish
The first book in the North American colonies that was published by a women named Anne Bradstreet is called "The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America." -
Enlightenment
Intellectual energy started taking place in Europe which was called Enlightenment. The Enlightenment thinkers had begun to question previously accepted truths about who should hold the power in government. -
Pamphlets
1763-1783 about two thousand pamphlets were published. -
Patrick Henry
He thundered to the delegates at the second Virginia Convention. "but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death." -
Constitution of the US
The year it was approved. The United States of America was born. -
Raven and the First Men
This picture shows how the bird, Raven, is a hero to Native American.