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Jan 1, 1492
Columbus
Columbus sailed to U.S.A for Spain to explore and bring back gold -
Sep 3, 1497
John Cabot
discoverd Newfoundland -
Period: Jan 1, 1535 to Jan 1, 1541
Jacques Cartier, Lawrence River
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 -
Period: Jan 1, 1539 to Jan 1, 1543
Hernando De Soto
He explored the Southeast region of North America for Spain, Looking for gold. He killed Indians, took food, and supplies at every stop. -
Period: Jan 1, 1540 to Jan 1, 1542
Francisco Coronado
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. -
Sep 3, 1567
Francis Drake
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" -
Jan 1, 1570
Francis Drake
Drake made 2 profitable trading voyages to the west indies. -
Period: Sep 3, 1577 to Sep 3, 1580
Francis Drake
Drake duplicated the feat following attacks againt Spanish ports on the West Coast of South America -
Sep 23, 1578
Sir Hugh Willoughby
he sailed from England, but was attacked by spinards and returned to England -
Period: Jan 1, 1581 to Jan 1, 1582
Phelipe De Escalante & Henando Barrado
Helped from Mexico to explore New Mexico led by Francisco Chamuscado. -
Walter Raleigh
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. -
Dutch Exploration
The lords of seventeen engaged the english navigator
Henry Hudson. Trying to find safe passage to the wealthy spice islands in the east. -
John Smith
sailed and landed in Virgnina on April 26, 1607 -
The settlers
the settlers established Jamestown -
Samuel De Champlain, Quebec
Samuel De Champlain was credited as founder of Quebec -
Attack on Iroquois
Samuel De Champlain and his men join the Huron Indians in an attack on the Iroquois Indians -
Sail To the New World
Henry Hudson left Amsterdam aboard the "Half Moon" a small eighty-ton yacht with a crew of eighteen sailors -
New Land
Henry Hudson reached the North Cape -
Gasper Perez De Villagra
Gasper Perez De Villagra was an official hisotrian of the 1st Spanish expeditons -
Captian Adriaen Block
An important navigater to have fallen in Hudson's path was Caption Adriean Block who explored NY & Southern New England -
Dutch Parliament
The states-general or dutch-parliament conseuted to a request by several merchants primarily from Amsterdam, to the new Netherland company -
Sir Hugh Willoughby
founded a settlement in Newfoundland -
Jacques Marquette & Louis Joliet
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
