Do you remember how New England was settled ?

The first European settlement in New England was a French colony established by Samuel de Champlain on Saint Croix Island, Maine in 1604.As early as 1600, French, Dutch, and English traders began to trade metal, glass, and cloth

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president thomas jefferson commissioned the expedition shortly after the louisiana purchase in 1803 to explore and to map the newly acquired territory, to find a practical route across the western half of the continent, and to establish an american presence in this territory before britain and other european powers