 | English Settlement in the New World John Rolfe to Pocahontas, the daughter of an Algonquian chief. During the 1620s, Jamestown expanded from the area around the original James Fort into a New Town built to the east; it remained the capital of the Virginia colony until 1699 10.98 Kb.  1 | read |
 | English settlement in the new world North America north of Florida; they had named it for Elizabeth I, the “virgin queen.” The Virginia Company planned to search for gold and silver deposits in the New World 10.51 Kb. 1 | read |
| Jacques Cartier Six Thinking Hats Dieppe, a major French center for navigators. After that he became a highly respected navigator. He may have sailed to Newfoundland with a fishing fleet in the early 1500s 7.45 Kb. 1 | read |
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