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(August 3, 1492) Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships, Santa Maria, the Pinta, and the Nina, He sailed to an island in the Bahamas arriving on October 12. In March 1493, he returned and was received with the highest honors by the Spanish court. This was important because he went back to Spain harboring both gold and spices. As well as “Indian” captives.

(1512) The Encomienda System, a way to give a Spaniard a restricted set of property rights over Indian labor, is created. Idealy, the plan was that Spaniards would protect, take care of, and convert, Natives and they did labor in return. In reality, the Spanish people force long labor, don’t pay workers, fail to protect Natives, and seize their land.

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(1756) Wanting to take more land to increase fur trade, tensions rose as New France settlers focused on the Ohio River valley and the Great Lakes where British settlers were also moving into. A weak peace treaty in 1748 was only a temporary pause in the power struggle in Europe. By the 1950s, animosity broiled again in North America. By 1756, war was declared, beginning the French and Indian war.

(1763) The proclamation of 1763 was a document issued October 7, 1763 by King George III. Following after the Seven Year war, it forbade settlement outside the Appalachian Mountains.

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