Colonial Kids: An Activity Guide to Life in the New World
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Note to Readers The term Native North Americans is used to represent those people who lived in America prior to European settlement For brevity when it is clear that the text is referring to one or more Native North American tribes the term Indians is used to refer to all these
Time Line 1000 1200 1492 150 1509 Horsemen and Greenland sagas Columbus landed Columbus made his first African slaves at Vinland written down in Caribbean last voyage to taken to New World New World by Spanish settlers Spanish ships 1519 took first horses to New World 1608 1607 1598 150 15ES French found English found Quebec Canada Jamestown Colony Spanish found Santa Fe Spanish settled at Chesapeake Bay Spanish found St Augustine Florida 1620 Mayflower arrived at Plymouth 16s 170 1760 1775 American colonies Swedish colonists Population of settled on Delaware River Europe 140 million Population of Colonial American 1 million Russian fur traders explored North America s west coast from England
