Exploration and Settlement

By conniemarie
  • 1492

    1492

    1492
    • Christopher Columbus's journey to the Caribbean started the relationship between the Native Americans and the Europeans -new comers wanted their land
  • 1513

    1513

    1513
    • he became the first European to lead an expedition -reached the pacific from the new world -he was a Spanish explore and helped set up the first settle on the south american continent
  • 1521

    1521

    1521
    -the win of cortes against the aztecs
    - lead the expedition that lead to the fall of the aztecs
  • 1539

    1539-41

    1539-41
    • De Soto was the first European to reach the Mississippi River
    • he came to the new world in 1514

  • 1607

    1607
    • Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement
    • founded by the Virginia Company
    • First to settle were the Puritans

  • 1620

    1620
    • Mayflower brought the Pilgrims to Plymouth, Massachusetts
    • Now called Cape Cod Bay
    • About 100 people were on the Mayflower

  • 1676

    1676
    -Last attempt to drive out English settlers by the Indians
    -Indians were mad over the colonist expansion of land
    -King Philip of India was beheaded
    - Fighting lasted 14 months

  • 1682

    1682
    -French explored the down the Gold of Mexico
    - They claimed the Mississippi River
    -They called it Louisiana