Exploration of North America Coloring Book

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• 1 The Vikings in Vinland, ca. 1000 AD
• 2 Columbus' Nina in the Bahamas, 1492
• 3 John Cabot explores Canada's east coast, 1497
• 4 Joao Fernandes explores the coast of Greenland, 1499
• 5 Corte-Real explores Newfoundland, 1500
• 6-7 Ponce de Leon explores Florida, 1513
• 8 A Basque whaler off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, 1520s
• 9 Cortes and Montezuma, 1519
• 10-11 Verrazano explores the middle Atlantic coast, 1524
• 12 Estevao Gomes explores the northeast coast, 1525
• 13 Ayllon explores the Carolina coast, 1526
• 14 Cabeza de Vaca travels throug the southwest, 1528-36
• 15 Cartier explores the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 1534
• 16-17 Coronado explores the Southwest, 1540-42
• 18 De Soto's exploration of the southeastern United States, 1539-43
• 19 Cabrillo's exploration of the California coast, 1542-43
• 20 Frobisher reaches Baffin Island, 1576-78
• 21 Drake lands in California, 1578
• 22-23 The Roanoke colony, 1584-87
• 24 Davis discovers Baffin Bay, 1587
• 25 Onate colonizes New Mexico, 1598
• 26 The Jamestown colonists explore Chesapeake Bay, 1607
• 27 Champlain establishes the Quebec colony, 1608
• 28-29 Block explores New York Bay and Long Island Sound, 1610 & 1614
• 30 Hudson discovers the Hudson River, 1609
• 31 The Pilgrims land at Plymouth, Massachusetts, 1620
• 32 Founding of the Maryland colony, 1634
• 33 Johan Printz, governor of New Sweden (Wilmington, DE), 1643
• 34 Marquette explores the Mississippi, 1673
• 35 La Salle petitions Louis XIV for permission to explore the Mississippi, 1677
• 36-37 Cadillac found Detroit, 1701
• 38 Bering discovers Alaska and the Aleutians, 1741
• 39 Daniel Boone settles in Kentucky, 1775
• 40 Captain Cook explores the north Pacific coast, 1778
• 41 Mackenzie crosses the continent to the Pacific, 1793
• 42-43 Lewis and Clark explore the Northwest, 1804-06
• 44 Fraser explores British Columbia, 1808
• 45 Jedidiah Smith travels from Utah to California, 1826-27