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A farmer and landowner who formed a loosely organized army and rose up against Native American camps in Virginia. This was the first time that western frontier settlers rebelled against the colonial establishment in the east.
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Nathaniel Bacon
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A French explorer who made three early voyages into present-day Canada in the early 1500s.
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Jacques Cartier
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A French explorer who founded "New France" (present-day Eastern Canada) in the 1600s.
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Samuel de Champlain
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A Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs and took their capital of Tenochititlan (Mexico City) in 1521.
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Hernando Cortes
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A Spanish explorer and conquistador who trekked through the present-day southwest of the United States for Spain in the mid-1500s.
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Hernando de Soto
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A Spanish explorer and conquistador who conquered the Incas in the 1520s and claimed all the land from Panama to Peru for Spain.
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Francisco Pizarro
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A colonist of Jamestown who saved the colony in Virginia when he discovered tobacco. His discovery also gave England further cause to establish more colonies in North America. He promoted peaceful relations with the Indians by marrying Pocahontas.
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John Rolfe
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