50 THINGS YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT Colonial America Written and Illustrated by Sean O’Neill Home Sweet Home Red Chair Press
Chapter 1 THE NEW WORLD European explorers began sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in the 15th and 16th centuries in hopes of finding a new trading route to Asia What they found instead were two continents filled with many strange new discoveries Of course many thousands of Native peoples had been living in the Americas for centuries but to the many European settlers that began traveling across the sea in search of a new home this was truly a new world 4
THE NEW WORLD 1 Although we give credit to Columbus for discovering the new world he himself didn’t believe it After four voyages across the Atlantic he still thought he had found a new route to Asia 2 Christopher Columbus wasn’t the first European to reach North America In 1001 C E a group of Scandinavian sailors led by Leif Ericson landed in what is now Eastern Canada Among the discoveries they made was a plant they had never seen grapevines Because of this they named the new land Vinland you Are Now Leaving Vinland Thanks for Visiting 5
