1541 Spanish interest in the New World is seen by Hernando de Soto's founding of Florida and Francisco Coronado's founding of what is now Kansas. The English attempt to build a colony in the New World at Roanoke Island. 1607 Settlers from England, led by Captain John Smith, start the most successful American colony so far in Jamestown, Virginia. Dutch fur traders build a trading post in Albany, New York. In Jamestown, the House of Burgesses is established and passes local area laws.
Women are now in the American Colonies.
The first African Americans arrive in the American colonies as indentured servants. Captain Miles Standish and his settlers in Massachusetts write the Mayflower Compact. The colony of Plymouth is established. The founding of the thirteen colonies continues, by Swedish, English, and Quakers. This includes Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North and South Carolina and Georgia.