James Marshall was the first ever person to think he found gold
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John Sutter thought he found gold but what he really found was fools gold so his friends called him foolish and he named thins town sutters folly.
Roger Williams was banished after being convicted of heresy. He founded Rhode Island so that others would have religious freedom.
Some were following the animals they were hunting and others found signs that they thought meant that was where they were meant to build their civilizations.
he was origanally looking for india,but a storm came up ,turned his boat around,and he found the united states, when he got here he found native americans and thought he was in india,so he called the native americans ''Indians"
Dysentary killed Marquette, Jolliet vanished while leading an expedition to Anticosti Island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, in Quebec, Canada, and it is presumed he died either while crossing the gulf or after landing on the island, although exactly how he died is unknown; his body was never found.