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Explored the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississipp River.
Hernando de Soto 1539
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People of Spain who make laws for the new world.
Council of the Indies
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Found Brazil for Portugal.
Pedro Cabral 1500
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Found New York harbor.
Giouannilda Verrazano 1524
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Claimed the entire in land region surrounding Mississippi River from France.
Robert la Salle 1682
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Founded and started a colony in Quebec, Canada.
Samuel de Champlain: 1608
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Claimed the upper Mississippi River for France.
Fatner Marquette and Louis Jolliet 1672
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Founded Montreal, Canada.
Jacques Cartier
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Explored the southwest desert of present day USE, sited the Grand Canyon, and the Great Plains.
Francisco Vasquez de Coronadoirsao
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Mexican conquistador, defeated Montezuma, and founded present day Mexico from Spain.
Herman Cortes 1519
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Tenochtitlan fell on this date.
August 13, 1521
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Goal for French and English exploring.
- 1. Established oversea colonies
- 2. Northwest passage
- 3. Quick trade profit
- 4. Raw materials
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First English colonies.
Roanoke Colony ; lost colony
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English explorer that explored New England and Nova Scotia Canada.
John Cabot 1497
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First permenent English colony.
Jamestown, Virginia
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Name the Spanish colonial class system in order of higher to lower power.
- 1. Peninsulares / full blood Spanish
- 2. Credles / full blood Spanish born in the New World
- 3. Mestizo / Spanish Indian people **
- 3. Mulatto / black white guys **
- 4. Indian and black slaves
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Founded the Roanoke Colony in North Carolina for England.
Sir Walter Raleigh 1585
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English explorer who saved Jamestown, Virginia. pocahonics.
John Smith 1607
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People who went to Massachusets on the mayflower in 1620 searching for large profit and freedom of religion.
Pilgrims
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