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In 1492 He sailed the ocean blue and found the New World for England.

Christopher Columbus

100

Name means "Penns Woods"

Pennsylvania

200

Conquered the Mexico for Spain.

Hernando Cortez

200

First Colony to offer complete religious freedom

Rhode Island

300

First European to find land in the Western Hemisphere

Leif Ericson

300

First permanent European settlement in America

St. Augustine

400

Explorer who claimed the eastern coast of North America for England.

John Cabot

400

First permanent settlement in Carolina

Savannah

500

Explorer for whom North and South America was named after.

Amerigo Vespucci

500

Claimed by three countries at once.

New York