People
Christopher Columbus
Name means "Penns Woods"
Pennsylvania
Conquered the Mexico for Spain.
Hernando Cortez
First Colony to offer complete religious freedom
Rhode Island
First European to find land in the Western Hemisphere
Leif Ericson
First permanent European settlement in America
St. Augustine
Explorer who claimed the eastern coast of North America for England.
John Cabot
First permanent settlement in Carolina
Savannah
Explorer for whom North and South America was named after.
Amerigo Vespucci
Claimed by three countries at once.
New York