Early History of the United States

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Area in Colorado settled by 400 AD which includes the Cliff Palace, largest cliff dwelling in North America

Year in which Columbus is credited with discovering America

This Spanish explorer arrived in 1513 on a fleet of ships consisting of the “Santiago”, the “San Cristobal”, and the “Santa Maria de la Consolacion”

Present-day state in which the above landed

This Florentine explorer was serving the King of France when he explored the east coast. A New York City bridge is named for him

First documented European to cross the Mississippi River, he died on its banks in 1542

This Spanish explorer came north from Mexico and traveled as far as Kansas looking for seven cities of gold

Name of the first permanent European settlement, settled in 1565

In 1579 this explorer was believed by many to have come ashore in northern California and named the land New Albion, claiming it from sea to sea for England

This doomed English settlement was founded in 1585 off the coast of North Carolina

Date of the first permanent English settlement

Name of the first permanent English settlement

Native American confederacy in the region of the above settlement

First manufactured product to be exported to Europe from the first permanent settlement

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This oldest capital city in the US was founded between 1607-1610

Ship on which English Separatists arrived in Massachusetts in 1620

Year the first documented Africans arrived on a captured slave ship

He is said to have been the first official slave in the colonies

Year of the above man’s hearing which some credit with formalizing slavery in the US

New Amsterdam, Capital of New Netherland, was changed to this name when the English took control

This colony, which brought the log cabin and Lutheranism to America, was captured by the Dutch in 1655 and merged into New Netherland

Important Native American confederacy consisting of Cayuga, Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, and Oneida tribes

French Jesuit missionary who explored the region of the northern Mississippi River in the 1600s

French Canadian explorer who accompanied the above

This northern city was founded in 1701 by French explorers

This country explored Alaska with the Second Kamchatka Expedition in the 1730s

Debtors and “the worthy poor” of England were brought to this future state in the 1730s

This US state was first a kingdom, then a republic, then a territory, but it was never a colony