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Area in Colorado settled by 400 AD which includes the Cliff Palace, largest cliff dwelling in North America
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Mesa Verde
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Year in which Columbus is credited with discovering America
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1492
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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”
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Ponce de Leon
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Present-day state in which the above landed
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Florida
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This Florentine explorer was serving the King of France when he explored the east coast. A New York City bridge is named for him
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Giovanni da Verrazzano
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First documented European to cross the Mississippi River, he died on its banks in 1542
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Hernando DeSoto
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This Spanish explorer came north from Mexico and traveled as far as Kansas looking for seven cities of gold
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Francisco Vazquez de Coronado
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Name of the first permanent European settlement, settled in 1565
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St. Augustine
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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
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Sir Francis Drake
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This doomed English settlement was founded in 1585 off the coast of North Carolina
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The Lost Colony of Roanoke
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Date of the first permanent English settlement
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1607
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Name of the first permanent English settlement
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Jamestown
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Native American confederacy in the region of the above settlement
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Powhatan
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First manufactured product to be exported to Europe from the first permanent settlement
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glassware
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This oldest capital city in the US was founded between 1607-1610
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Santa Fe
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Ship on which English Separatists arrived in Massachusetts in 1620
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The Mayflower
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Year the first documented Africans arrived on a captured slave ship
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1619
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He is said to have been the first official slave in the colonies
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John Punch
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Year of the above man’s hearing which some credit with formalizing slavery in the US
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1640
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New Amsterdam, Capital of New Netherland, was changed to this name when the English took control
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New York
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This colony, which brought the log cabin and Lutheranism to America, was captured by the Dutch in 1655 and merged into New Netherland
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New Sweden
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Important Native American confederacy consisting of Cayuga, Mohawk, Seneca, Onondaga, and Oneida tribes
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Iroquois
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French Jesuit missionary who explored the region of the northern Mississippi River in the 1600s
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Father Jacques Marquette
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French Canadian explorer who accompanied the above
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Louis Jolliet
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This northern city was founded in 1701 by French explorers
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Detroit
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This country explored Alaska with the Second Kamchatka Expedition in the 1730s
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Russia
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Debtors and “the worthy poor” of England were brought to this future state in the 1730s
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Georgia
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This US state was first a kingdom, then a republic, then a territory, but it was never a colony
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Hawaii
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