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24 Cards in this Set
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Ponce de Leon lands in Florida
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1513
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Small pox, brought by the Europeans, begins to decimate the Native population of South and Central America
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1518 (lasts till 1530)
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Surrender of Tenochtitlan to Spanish explorer Fedinand Cortes
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1521
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Henry VIII starts the English Reformation mainly to gain divorce from Catherine or Aragon
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1533
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Hernando de Soto begins exploring southeastern US
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1539
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Francisco Vasquez de Coronado begins to explore southeastern US
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1540
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Elizabeth I becomes queen of England
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1558
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Sir Walter Raleigh starts Roanoke Colony
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1587
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English defeat Spanish Armada
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1588
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James I becomes King of England
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1603
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Samuel de Champlain explores future Canada
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1603
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Jamestown VA founded
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1607
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First Virginian Tobacco crop harvested
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1611
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First blacks arrive in Virginia
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1619
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Plymouth colony founded
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1620
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Powhatan Confederacy attacks Virginia Colony
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1622
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Dutch settle Manhattan island
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1624
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Charles I becomes King of England
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1625
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Massachusetts Bay Colony founded
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1630
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Maryland is founded as 'a haven for English Catholics'
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1634
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Roger Williams is expelled from Massachusetts Bay colony; founds Providence
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1635
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Connecticut founded
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1636
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1. Pequot war wipes out the Indians of that tribe
2. Anne Marbury Hutchinson expelled to Rhode island for preaching 'heresy' |
1637
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Virginia and Powhatan Confederacy sign peace treaty
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1646
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