Unit One u.s.h

By Viki lent
  • Period: Sep 26, 1300 to

    Unit One

  • Nov 28, 1492

    Christopher Columbus

    He thought he was the "First" person to find American. But really he wasn't and he was a bad guy but some people thought he was nice.
  • Sep 26, 1497

    John Cabot

    John Cabot An Italian whose original name was Giovanni Caboto, Cabot was the first known explorer sailing for the English to cross the Atlantic
  • Aug 28, 1576

    Sir Martin Forbisher

    Sir Martin Forbisher Forbisher sailed three voyages across the Atlantic Ocean- in 1576, 1577, and 1578. Like Cabot, he was searching for a trade route to Asia that went past or through the continent of North America. This route, called the Northwest Passage, does exist north of Canada.
  • Sep 26, 1577

    Sir Francis Drake

    Drake explored between 1577 and 1880, he became the first English captain to sail around the world.

  • John Davis

    John Davis Davis, too, made three voyages to North America in search of a Northwest Passage, in 1585,1586, and 1587. Davis’s voyage took him along the west coast of Greenland and the east coasts of Baffin Island and Labrador.

  • Jamestown

    Jamestown didn't last very long becasue they had a lot of difficulties like; conflict with Native Americans, Unrealistics expctation, Location, poor leadership and Starvation was the so bad that most of them became cannibals.

  • Henry Hudson

    Henry Hudson explored for both the English and Dutch. In 1609, he explored the river now known as the Hudson, in present-day New York, but he realized that the river was not the Northwest Passage and turned back. In 1610, he discovered present-day Hudson Bay.

  • William Penn

    He founded Pennsylvania for the Quakers but it eventually became a religious tolerance colony.

  • King Charles II

    He gave permision for most of the colonist people to settle in America and start their own colonies there.

  • Salem Witch Hunts

    People started to get sick and being the people they are they thought the people were sick because of witchs so they went through the town acccusing innocent people being witchs and eventually 20 people were killed.