Age Of Exploration And Colonization

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Brendan

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Ireland
Unknown land
About 500 A.D.

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Leif Eriksson

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Sweden, Norway, and Denmark
Vinland or wine land because there were many grapevines
1000 A.D.

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Marco Polo

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Italy
China
1271-1295

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Bartholomeu Dias

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Portugal
Cape of Good Hope
1488

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Christopher Columbus

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Spain
San Salvador, other Caribbean Sea islands, and along the shores of Central America
1492-93; 1493-96; 1498; 1502-04

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Vasco da Gama

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Portugal
India
1497-99

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Balboa and Ponce de Leon

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Spain
Florida, Ponce de Leon looking for fountain of youth
1513

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Vasco Nunez

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Spain
Pacific Ocean
1513

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Spain
Circumnavigated the globe
1519-22

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Francisco Pizzaro

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Spain
Aztec Empire of South America: Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Argentina
1531-33

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Hernando Cortes

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Spain
Aztec Empire of Mexico
1519

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Cabeza de Vaca and Esteban

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Spain
Texas, told about the Seven Cities of Gold
1536

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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

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Spain
Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas
1540

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Hernando De Soto

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Spain
Florida, Georgia, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, and Alabama
1539

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Line of Demarcation

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1494, Spain and Portugal petitioned Pope to divide world between 2 countries because of their discoveries.

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New Spain

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Area explored by Cortes

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Slavery

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Introduced into much of New Spain by Spanish. Natives forced to work for Spanish.

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Spanish Armada

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1580? sent to attack England
1588 most of armada destroyed in English Channel by bad weather
Weakening of Spain led England and other countries to explore and compete for colonies in New World.

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John Cabot

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England
Newfoundland
1497

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Giovanni Verrazano

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France
New York Bay and Hudson River; mapped North American coast

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Jacques Cartier

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France
Discovered St. Lawrence Gulf and St. Lawrence River
1534

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Sir Francis Drake

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England
Pacific coasts of North and South America; claimed coastal lands of what is now California for England; first Englishman to sail around world
1577

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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England
Roanoke Island; Virginia Dare was the first English baby born in America
1587

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Samuel de Champlain

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France
Founded the city of Quebec; explored region of New England; made maps and drew pictures
1603

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Henry Hudson

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Holland
Sailed up the Hudson River in his small ship the Half Moon; explored eastern coast of North America
1609

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Farther Marquette and Louis Joliet

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France
Discovered the MS River to the mouth of the AR River
1673

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Robert de La Salle

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France
First European to travle the whole length of the MS River all the way to the Gulf of Mexico; claimed entire MS Valley for France
1682

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London Company

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England
Founded Jamestown in 1607
Led by Capt. John Smith and Christopher Newport

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Pilgrims

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England
Founded Plymouth, MA; Escape religious persecution
1620
Separate from Anglican Church

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Puritans

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England
Founded MA Bay Colony
1630
Wanted to reform Anglican Church

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Mayflower Compact

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Document of rules and regulations to be followed by pilgrims once they arrived in MA

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Plymouth Colony & MA Bay Colony

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Eventually merged
Boston = main city

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Iroquois

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Allied with English and Dutch
Divided into 5 Tribes = Iroquois League
Women elected religious and tribal leaders
Articles of Confederation based on their confederation

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New England Colonies

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England
Natives were alarmed by intrusion and expansion.
Shipbuilding, fishing, whaling

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Middle Colonies

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French, Germans, Scots, Irish, and some free Africans
Farming, flour milling, shipping, and trading

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Southern Colonies

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English, French, Scots, and African slaves
Farming, Trade

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New Hampshire

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1623
Product of several English land grants dating from 1623, when it was first founded by John Mason, to 1680. For much of its colonial history it was controlled by the Massachusetts Bay Colony based in Boston.

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New York

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1624
Dutch set up trading posts.
Englad took colony in 1664

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Connecticut

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1633
William Holmes led a group of settlers from Plymouth Colony to the Connecticut Valley, where they established Windsor, a few miles north of the Dutch trading post.

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Maryland

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1634
Lord Baltimore
Haven for Catholics
Proprietary colony

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Rhode Island

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1636
Roger Williams, a theologian, independent preacher, and linguist on land gifted by the Narragansett Chief Canonicus.
R. Williams was fleeing from religious persecution in MA.

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Delaware

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1638
New Sweden Company and Peter Minuit created the first permanent settlement.
Granted to William Penn in 1681.

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New Jersey

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1640
English proprietors John Berkeley and George Carteret

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Pennsylvania

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1643
William Penn
Quakers

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North Carolina

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1653
Originally part of Virginia, then the Province of Carolina, which was chartered by eight Lords Proprietors.

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South Carolina

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1670
Originally part of Virginia, then the Province of Carolina, which was chartered by eight Lords Proprietors.

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Georgia

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1733
Oglethorpe envisioned the province as a location for the resettlement of English debtors and "the worthy poor."
Also served as buffer between Eng and Florida.