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- This Indian confederation was able to hold and expand their lands by playing the English and French against each other.
- This refers to the transfer of plants, animals, culture, and disease between Europe, Africa, and the New World after discovery.
- England would base her later claims to New World territories on his explorations beginning in 1497.
- Supposedly looking for the mythical "fountain of youth", this Spanish conquistador explored present day Florida.
- After one of their villages was set upon and burned by settlers, this war erupted in 1637 when Indians attacked white settlements in retaliation.
- The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam was taken by the English in 1664. After that, it was renamed what?
- He was banished from Massachusetts after he challenged Church leaders and called for the separation of "church and colony (state)" authority.
- This colony was the first English proprietary colony, established in 1634 as a haven for 'Catholics' who were shunned in England.
- Granted land in 1681, he would create a colony built upon Quaker principles of toleration and form an elected government structure that allowed for changes to accommodate local conditions and needs.
- These were land holdings, whereby Spanish conquistadors and overlords brutally controlled Indian land and labor.
- Off the coast of Virginia, Sir Walter Raleigh established an ill fated colony in 1587 that disappeared with no trace from this island.
- Georgia Colony was envisioned and chartered by the English Crown for what purpose?
- This colony was established in 1620 after the settlers agreed to create a government based on the Mayflower Compact.
- He sailed the coast of the New World in 1499 and determined it to be a new continental mass
- this Pueblo shaman/holy man led a revolt against the Spanish and drove them out of New Mexico
- In 1531, he led an expedition into South America and began the conquest of the Inca Empire.
- He established the first permanent French settlement in North America and founded Quebec as the capital of "New France".
- In 1682, this French explorer traveled the length of the Mississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico and claimed all that land for France.
- This was one of the few known 'Inca' strongholds that was not discovered by the Spanish.
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