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Salem witchcraft, 1692 (Massachusetts): During the Salem witchcraft trials, 20 people were executed for being witches. It was actually first built in 1673, but the map shows it in 1675, when the fort was rebuilt to be larger and stronger.
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Purchase of Manhattan, 1623 (New York): Though the story is much-debated today (even the date ranges from 1623 to 1626), Dutch national archives do show record of the Dutch having purchased rights to the island from someone (though what those rights were, how much they cost, and who they were purchased from is unclear).įort Frontenac, 1675 (Canada): This French trading post was key in the early fur trade along the Great Lakes. The journey became one of the most memorable symbols of early European colonization in the Americas. The Mayflower, 1620 (Massachusetts): In the summer of 1620, the Pilgrims left Plymouth, England, for the New World, reaching Cape Cod in November that year.
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He made important early maps of the coast. The same year he arrived, he famously encountered Pocahontas's tribe.Ĭhamplain's settlement of Canada, 1608 (Canada): Champlain was a French explorer who founded New France and Quebec City in 1608. ( Bohrod/Library of Congress)Ĭaptain John Smith, 1608 (Virginia): Explorer John Smith led the Virginia Colony's settlement in Jamestown and became a notable figure of early English colonization in North America. ( Bohrod/Library of Congress) The Northeast and CanadaĪaron Bohrod's map of American history.