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Exploration and Establishment of the United States 1450–1776
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Don Larson
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Christopher Columbus lands at San Salvador
Gutenberg's Printing Press
John Cabot reaches present day Newfoundland and Labrador
Amerigo Vespucci lands at San Salvador
Martin Waldseemüller publishes a world map
Vasco Núñez de Balboa settles in the Americas
Ferdinand Magellan leaves for a voyage across the Pacific
Treaty of Tordesillas
Ponce de León lands in what is now the state of Florida
Ponce de León returns to Floridato start a settlement
Hernando Cortés lands in what is now Mexico
Spain sends Marcos de Niza and Estevanico to Mexico to find gold
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado sets out to find the golden cities
Conquistador Francisco Pizarro attacks the Incas led by Atahuallpa
Hernando de Soto explores the southeastern United States
Giovanni da Verrazano searches for the Northwest Passage
Jacques Cartier searches for the Northwest Passage
Henry Hudson's last voyage
Colony of New Spain formed
Portugal forms the colony of Brazil
Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sails from Spain to form what is now St. Augustine, Florida
Missionaries help settle Santa Fe, the capitol of the New Mexico Colony
Walter Raleigh sets up a colony in North America
John White sets up a colony on Roanoke Island
English merchants set up the Virginia Company
Settlement of Jamestown established
First Africans were brought to Jamestown
House of Burgesses meets
Powhatan wars
Virginia becomes a royal colony under King James I
The Mayflower lands at Plymouth
About 300 colonists live in Plymouth
Tisquantum (Squanto) helps the Pilgrims
Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec along the St. Lawrence River
The Dutch form the settlement of New Netherland on Manhattan Island
Swedish settlers found New Sweden
Jacque Marquette and Louis Joliet set out to find the Mississippi
Sieur de la Salle sets out to find the mouth of the Mississippi
Pierre Le Moyne and Jean-Baptiste find the mouth of the Mississippi
John Law becomes Louisiana's owner
New Orleans becomes Louisiana's capitol
The Puritans build Salem on Massachusetts Bay
John Winthrop leads a second group of Puritans to Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Puritans expel Roger Williams
The Puritans expel Anne Huthinson
Roger Williams forms the Rhode Island Colony
Connecticut Colony founded by Roger Hooker
New Hampshire colony founded
Peter Stuyvesant becomes governor of New Netherland
Stuyvesant surrenders New Netherland to England
William Penn writes "The Frame of Government of Pennsylvania"
Maryland's first colonists arrive
Maryland Colony passes the Toleration Act
Carolina Colony formed
Carolina adopts a constitution
Carolina Colony split into two colonies—North Carolina and South Carolina
Georgia Colony formed by James Oglethorpe
Fort Mose formed by freed Africans
Plantations expanded inland
Indigo a major cash crop in South Carolina
Baltimore becomes a major center for shipbuilding
Vasco da Gama sails from Lisbon to Calicut
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Periods
Christopher Columbus 1451–1506
Estevanico 1503?–1539
John Smith 1580–1631
Tisquantum (Squanto) 1585?–1622
Anne Hutchinson 1591–1643
Pocahontas 1595?–1617
Benjamin Franklin
Olaudah Equiano 1745?–1797
