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The Scandinavian seafarer, , who explored Labrador around 1000, was probably the first European to reach the New World.
of Portugal sponsored improvements in navigation and voyages of exploration in the fifteenth century.
Contact with Europeans proved disastrous for the Native Americans; their populations were decimated by European .
The primary organizing force for early English colonization in the New World were who, as capitalists, were largely motivated by a concern for profits.
Sir Walter Raleigh, a favorite in Queen Elizabeth's court, founded the "lost colony" of in 1587.
English Puritans who favored complete self-government for individual churches were later called .
The leader of the Puritans' Great Migration and longtime governor of Massachusetts Bay was .
When he was banished from Massachusetts Bay, Roger Williams established the colony of , where all religions were tolerated.
Unlike the Massachusetts Bay system, the instrument of government for the Connecticut colony, the , did not limit voting to church members.
Maryland's Toleration Act of 1649 guaranteed freedom of religion to all .
England based its claims to the New World on the voyages and explorations of in 1497 and 1498.
Upon entering a new region of the Americas, Spanish conquistadors read the that called upon the Indians to recognize the sovereignty of the Spanish monarchy.
The first elected representative assembly in English America was the , founded in Virginia in 1619.
Many of the early settlers in the Carolinas were English colonists who had earlier settled on the West Indian island of .
John Locke's elaborate social plan for the Carolinas, the , proved unworkable because it restricted settlers' access to land.
