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Earliest Inhabitants of the Americas, Age of Exploration & Discovery, Explora...

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show The first explorers  
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Leif Erikson   show
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show First to go around the world  
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show Portugal explorers. Found the Indies  
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show 1451-1506/Born in Geneva. Tries to find Western route to Indies but finds America. Brings back gold and natives. Led voyage of Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria in 1492/4 Trans-Atlantic trips  
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show King & Queen of Spain. They give Columbus permission to sail to find the Indies. Gave provisions and boats to Columbus  
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King John II   show
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show Sailed for Spain and Portugal. Knew Columbus was wrong in that he discovered the New World and not the Indies. First one to call America a New World.  
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show French explorer/Discovered the New York harbor and helped establish the New France/1524 explore east coast of North America/France claim for land in the world"New France"  
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Vazquez de Coronado   show
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Hernando de Soto   show
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Ponce de Leon   show
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Jacques Cartier   show
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show French explorer/Established first small colony in Quebec/fur trading and economic relations with natives/explore interior of Canada - trading posts  
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show English explorer/Looks for NW passage to Indies/Finds Hudson River/Dutch let him seek NW passage  
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John Cabot   show
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show Also looking for new passage. No colony?  
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Queen Elizabeth I   show
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show King of Scotland and Stewart King of England /Chartered Jamestown colony  
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show English Explorer/Queen Elizabeth tells him to find a colony/didn't find anything?  
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Sir Richard Grenville   show
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Virginia Dare   show
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Powhatans   show
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John Smith   show
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Pocahontas   show
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John Rolfe   show
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Pilgrims/Separatists   show
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show Main leader for the Separatists  
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show Indian tribes in Provincetown, Massachusetts/stole corn  
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Squanto   show
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Massasoit   show
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show Leif Erikson "discovers" New Foundland/L'Anse aux Meadows  
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show Columbus "discovers" New World (actually San Salvador Island in Bahamas)  
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show Treaty of Tordesillas  
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1541   show
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show Settlement of St. Augustine Founded  
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show Roanoke Island colony founded  
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1607   show
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1610   show
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show lands of Provincetown, Massachsetts  
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show Plymouth Colony founded  
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1624   show
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1624   show
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Bering Land Bridge/ Beringia theory   show
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Connection between sea levels and climate/ice ages   show
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Monte Verde, Chile   show
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Scandinavia   show
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Portugal   show
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Spain   show
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Brazil   show
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show Pilgrims were persecuted ind England and they fled here but generally had bad jobs  
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Cape Horn (South America)   show
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show French  
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show 1494?/Pope Alexander IV/Settled territories for Spain and Portugal  
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New Spain   show
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show Millions of years ago-1 continent then they drifted apart/diff species of animals&plants develop&evolved on diff continents/process reverses itself w/Columbus & transatlantic exploration & settlement/led to huge popul growth/environmental damage/disease  
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St. Augustine, Florida   show
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Fountain of Youth   show
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show Discovered in 1541 by Hernando de Soto  
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Spanish missions   show
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show 1598 - Capital of Spanish New Mexico/Franciscan monk - converted natives to Christianity/Is the oldest permanent settlement West of Mississippi River  
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show Dutch Netherlands? - looking for western route to Indies - not interested in colonies but economic ties/Explored NYC area - great natural harbor for an economic center  
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show in 1624 - an economic colony for New Amsterdam bought from Manhattan Indians for $24/expands land holdings and make wars with natives.  
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New France   show
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St. Lawrence River   show
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Quebec   show
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Fur trading   show
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show English explorer Henry Hudson looking for this/Dutch let him seek this  
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show NYC area/English explorer Henry Hudson found this while looking for NW Passage to Indies/Asia  
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show 1606 - 1607 new english colony in Jamestown, VA under this company which was a private investment corporation interested in gold & silver & a western route to Indies.  
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Virginia   show
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show 1st English Colony in US 1585/Northside of island they built a fort/Grew tobacco&potatoes/had natives that appeared friendly/Greenville started colony-returns to England f/supplies- comes back in 1586 & no inhabitants remained/carved into a tree croatoan  
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Jamestown colony and James River   show
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show Grown by English settlers/made them money/grew well in Virginia/"gold" imported back to England  
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Virginia Company of Plymouth   show
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Popham colony   show
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Cape Cod/Provincetown, Massachusetts   show
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show Pilgrims/Separatist landed in the New World for freedom of religion & to live as Englishmen  
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Mayflower Compact   show
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