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In A.D 1001, Leif Ericsson and 35 othe vinkings explored the coast of Labbrador and stayed the winter in Newfoundland
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Columbus and his three ships left Spain in august 1492. They landed in the bahamas, probably on what is today Watling Island.
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Columbus soon left for his seconed voyage with 17 ships and 1,200 colonists. In November 1493 he landed in Hipaniola. Many of the colonists felt Columbus had misled them with promises of gold, so they returned to spain
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On May 30, 1498, Columbus left with six ships from Sanlucar, Spain, for his third trip to the New World. Three of the ships headed directy for Hispaniola with much-needed supplieswhile columbus took the other three in an exploration of what might lie to the south of the caribbean ilands he had aready vised, includin a hope-for passage to Asia
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in 1519 the spanish government asked hernan cortes to lead an expedition to the yucatan peninsula to find new people who could bne forced to work on the farms and mines of cuba.
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in 1520 the Aztec priest organized a rebellion against the spanish and drove them out of the capital.
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in 1521 cortes launched another another attack and this time defeated
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by 1600 fur, particularly beaver fur had become very fashionable in Europe
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in 1602 the french king authorized a group of merchants to establish colonies in north America
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english law did not recognize chattel slavery where one human being is said to be owned by another
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passengers set off on the journey across the atlanic
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landed at cape cod
sailed on the mayflower
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young minister named Roger Williams arrived in Boston
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Maryland became the first British colony to formally recogize slavery when it denied Africans the same rights English citizens
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an estimated 20,000 settlers had arrived in New England
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two towns joined together with providence and portsmouth to become the colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
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charles II assumed the throne in 1660 however he and his advisers were determined to generate wealth for England by regulating trade and exanding the colonings in america
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new francebecome a royal colone
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government began demanding that the native americans follow english laws
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King Charles II granted a charter to the Rayol Africa Company to engage in the slave trade
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the plymouth colony tried and executed three wampanoag for a murder
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parliament passed another navigation act called the STAPLE ACT. this act required navigation the colonies imported to come through England
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King Charles II appointed a committee called the lords Commissioners of Trade and Plantation to overseas colonial trade and advis him about problems
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war erupted between backcountry farmers met to dicuss the situation
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he returned to jamestown with serveral hundered armed men and seized power charging Berkeley with corruption
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New Hampshire became a royal colony
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Virginia goverrnment generally supported expanding the colony westward, regardless of the impact on Native Americans
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King Charles responded to this defiance by depriving Massachusette of its charter and declaring it to be a royal colony
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the following year Connecticut and New Jersey were forced to join the Dominion and by the spring of 1688 New York had been added as well
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A new type of rice was introduced and the planters -- many of whom had to come from Bardados and Jamaica where slavery was common--decided to import enslaved Africans to centuries.
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as wealthier planter in Virginia and Maryland swithched from indentured to slave labor the size of their plantations began to grow
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Virgina pulled all of these different laws together into a slave code a set of laws that formally regulated slavery and defined the relationship between enslaved Africans and free people
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In 1721 a smallpox epidemic swept through Bosten. Reverend Cotton Mather, a Puritan leader used information from his reading and the knowledge of enslaved africans to develop an inoculation for smallpox
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The Great Awakening began in earnest when the Anglican minister George WhiteField arrived in Philadelphia in 1739. The ideas of John Wesley the founder of methodism influenced whitefield and both had an impact on America.
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In 1739, 75 Africans gathered near the stono river attacked their white overseers and fled toward Florida. They attacked white as they traveled. The local militia ended the stono rebellion killing 30 and 40 africans
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South Carolina began to develop another cash crop called Indigo. Indigo was used to make blue dye for cloth---- a dye much in demand in Europe
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Olaudah Equiano aslo know as gustavus Vassa, was kidnapped from his West Africa home by other African in the 1760
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Germans known as the Pennsylvania Dutch made up about one third of the population. They became some of Pennsylvania's most prosperous farmers
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approximately 500,000 Africans were transported to north america before the slave trade ended in the 1800s
