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Group of colonists (91 men, 17 women and 9 children) settled on the Island of Roanoke. First English settlement.
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Colony had vanished entirely and historians still don't know what happened to it.
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King James I issued royal charter which divided the Atlantic Seaboard in two.
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The London company sent 144 men to Virginia on three ships: The Godspeed, The Discovery and The Susan Constant.
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The 144 men reached the Chesapeake Bay and headed 60 miles up the James River, where they built a settlement, Jamestown.
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Tobacco was learned how to grow, by the Virginia Settler's.
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First slaves arrived to Virginia, which were African.
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Small groups of pilgrims, which were the first English emigrants, arrived in Plymouth.
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King revoked Virginia company's charter and became royal colony.
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The company sent a much larger of pilgrims to establish another Massachusetts settlement.
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Twelve million acres of land granted to Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore.
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King Charles II gave territory between New England and Virginia (already occupied by Dutch traders and landowners) to his brother, the Duke of York.
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Pilgrims who thought that Massachusetts wasn't devoutly religious enough formed Connecticut and New Haven, which then combined.
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King granted 45,000 square miles of land West of Delaware river to William Penn, a quaker with lots of land in Netherland.
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The Colonies split.
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Inspired to build a buffer between South Carolina and the Spanish settlements in Florida, the Englishman James Oglethorpe established the Georgia Colony.