history 9

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  • 1524

    Giovanni da Verrazzano

    Giovanni da Verrazzano an Italian in the service of France. He sailed to North America in search of a sea route to the Pacific. While he did not find the route, Verrazzano did discover what is today New York harbor.
  • 1534

    Frenchman Jacques Cartier

    Frenchman Jacques Cartier reached a gulf off the eastern coast of Canada that led to a broad river. Cartier named it the St. Lawrence. He followed it inward until he reached a large island dominated by a mountain. He named the island Mont Real (Mount Royal), which later became known as Montreal.

  • Samuel de Champlain

    Another French explorer, Samuel de Champlain sailed up the St. Lawrence with about 32 colonists. They founded Quebec, which became the base of France’s colonial empire in North America, known as New France.

  • london investors

    a company of London investors received from King James a charter to found a colony in North America.

  • london investors 4 months later

    the london investors reached the coast of Virginia. The colonists claimed the land as theirs. They named the settlement Jamestown in honor of their king.

  • english colonist

    the approximately 105 English colonists who had set sail from England landed in Virginia. They named their colony Jamestown, after the monarch who had approved the financing of a new settlement.

  • henry hudson

    Henry Hudson, an Englishman in the service of the Netherlands, sailed west. He was searching for a northwest sea route to Asia. Hudson did not find a route. He did, however, explore three waterways that were later named for him—the Hudson River, Hudson Bay, and Hudson Strait.

  • pilgrims

    a group known as Pilgrims founded a second English colony, Plymouth, in Massachusetts. Persecuted for their religious beliefs in England, these colonists sought religious freedom.

  • puritans

    a group known as Puritans also sought religious freedom from England’s Anglican Church. They established a larger colony at nearby Massachusetts Bay.

  • Charles ll

    the English king, Charles II, granted his brother, the Duke of York, permission to drive out the Dutch. When the duke’s fleet arrived at New Netherland, the Dutch surrendered without firing a shot. The Duke of York claimed the colony for England and renamed it New York.