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Early American history timeline until 1725. (See? America's always been at war.)
(Sorry about the weird formatting. I transferred the data from various Excel spreadsheets to Word, where it was edited
to death, but it all turned out like this in Trellix, where I can't do much with it.)
1513: Juan Ponce de León from Spain was
the first to land in the continental United States, making
him the first tourist in Florida.
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1534: New France was colonized by Jacques Cartier, who had been exploring the St. Lawrence River.
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1600s: The eastern seacoast was settled primarily by English
colonists (including 50,000 convicts beginning around 1620), along with smaller numbers of Dutch and Swedes. Penal colonies
remained until the American Revolution. Since there was a severe labor shortage, slavery and indentured servitude was introduced.
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1607: The first successful English colony of Jamestown was
established, but did not prosper until a new wave of settlers arrived late in the century, establishing commercial agriculture
based on tobacco.
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1620: The Plymouth Colony was established in the New England area.
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1630: Puritans established the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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1622: One example of conflict between Native Americans and
English settlers was the Powhatan uprising in Virginia, in which Native Americans had killed hundreds of English settlers.
The largest conflict between Native Americans and English settlers in the this century was King Philip's War in New
England.
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1672: French explorers looked for profitable trade routes.
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The 18th century was even busier.
1701: Fort Pontchartrain was built by the French at Detroit.
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1702:
New Jersey was formed when East and West Jersey united under the authority of the New York governor. Queen Anne’s War
(The War of Spanish Succession) began. Later in the year, the Spanish settlement at St. Augustine fell to Carolina forces.
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1704: A French frigate arrived in Louisiana with soldiers, workers and 23 girls sent to marry colonists.
During Queen Anne’s War, French and Abenaki Indians destroyed Deerfield, Massachusetts. Later in the year, New England colonists destroyed two important supply villages in Acadia (present day Nova Scotia).
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1706: French and Spanish soldiers unsuccessfully
attacked Charlestown, South
Carolina.
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1711: The Treaty of Utrecht, a series
of treaties between France
and Great Britain in 1712 ended Queen Anne’s War. However,
the Tuscarora Indian War began when North
Carolina settlers were killed by the Indians.
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1712: New France extended from Newfoundland
to the Rocky Mountains and from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico, divided into Canada, Acadia, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland and
Louisiana. Antoine Crozat was granted control of Louisiana by Louis XIV.
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1714: Louis Juchereau St. Denis established
trade relations with Spanish east Texas and Mexico.
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1717:
Scots-Irish immigration began in earnest due to higher rent rates in the Great
Britain.
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1725: It is estimated that there were approximately
75,000 black slaves in the American colonies.
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