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2 days ago · Amerigo Vespucci wakes up "America" in Americae Retectio, engraving by the Flemish artist Jan Galle (circa 1615) Systematic European colonization began in 1492. A Spanish expedition sailed west in order to find a new trade route to the Far East, the source of spices, silks, porcelains, and other rich trade goods.
4 days ago · Delaware was one of the 13 Original Colonies that declared independence from Great Britain in July 1776, establishing the United States of America. The first European settlement in Delaware was established by the Dutch in 1631 near present-day Lewes, Delaware. However, the settlement was destroyed in a dispute with local Indians.
3 days ago · Title page from “An accurate description of the recently founded province of Pennsylvania” by Francis Daniel Pastorius, who established the first German settlement in the colonies, 1700. (more) The opening of the 17th century found three countries— France , Spain , and England —contending for dominion in North America .
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- The American colonies were the British colonies that were established during the 17th and early 18th centuries in what is now a part of the eastern...
- In 1606 King James I of England granted a charter to the Virginia Company of London to colonize the American coast anywhere between parallels 34° a...
- After the French and Indian War the British government determined that the colonies should help pay for the cost of the war and the postwar garriso...
- On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, “unanimously” by the votes of 12 colonies (with New York abstaining) res...
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1 day ago · The most direct and significant impact of their arrival came when the Europeans established settlements with associated land uses. Dr. H. Ricardo Grau et al. developed a spatially explicit model of European colonization timing for the Americas based on the foundation dates of cities.
1 day ago · The English colonization of North America was but one chapter in the larger story of European expansion throughout the globe. The Portuguese , beginning with a voyage to Porto Santo off the coast of West Africa in 1418, were the first Europeans to promote overseas exploration and colonization.
6 days ago · Spanish Florida ( Spanish: La Florida) was the first major European land-claim and attempted settlement-area in northern America during the European Age of Discovery. La Florida formed part of the Captaincy General of Cuba, the Viceroyalty of New Spain, and the Spanish Empire during Spanish colonization of the Americas.
5 days ago · Map of early human migrations based on the Out of Africa theory; figures are in thousands of years ago (kya).. The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the ...
