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Columbus sailed to U.S.A for Spain to explore and bring back gold
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discoverd Newfoundland
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Jacques Cartier and his men explored the northeast part of the continent trying to find a passage to China but instead found the St. Lawrence River and explored it in 3 trips
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He explored the Southeast region of North America for Spain, Looking for gold. He killed Indians, took food, and supplies at every stop.
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Explored the Southwest for 2 years looking for the 3 G's, the found nothing. He got mad and took it out on the Indians.
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Made one of the first English slaving voyages as part of a flet led by John Hawkins bringing African slaves to work in the "New World"
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Drake made 2 profitable trading voyages to the west indies.
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Drake duplicated the feat following attacks againt Spanish ports on the West Coast of South America
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he sailed from England, but was attacked by spinards and returned to England
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Helped from Mexico to explore New Mexico led by Francisco Chamuscado.
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Walter Raleigh scouted posible sites for a colony farther tp the South. Naming the land Virginia after Elizabeth, the virgin queen.He chose Roanoke Island off the coast of present day North Carolina.
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The lords of seventeen engaged the english navigator
Henry Hudson. Trying to find safe passage to the wealthy spice islands in the east. -
sailed and landed in Virgnina on April 26, 1607
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the settlers established Jamestown
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Samuel De Champlain was credited as founder of Quebec
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Samuel De Champlain and his men join the Huron Indians in an attack on the Iroquois Indians
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Henry Hudson left Amsterdam aboard the "Half Moon" a small eighty-ton yacht with a crew of eighteen sailors
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Henry Hudson reached the North Cape
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Gasper Perez De Villagra was an official hisotrian of the 1st Spanish expeditons
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An important navigater to have fallen in Hudson's path was Caption Adriean Block who explored NY & Southern New England
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The states-general or dutch-parliament conseuted to a request by several merchants primarily from Amsterdam, to the new Netherland company
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founded a settlement in Newfoundland
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Jacques Marquette & Louis Joliet were sent to explore the Mississippi River. Once they reached the Arkansas River they thought they would be captured enemy Spaniards and turned around
