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The 13 colonies were founded in order to grow the British Empire and to counter the Spanish.
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The Jamestown Colony is established by the Virginia Company. -
An infectious disease, difficult to identify, almost eliminated coastal New Hampshire's native population, in effect facilitating European settlement. -
The first pilgrims arrived on the mayflower and landed in Plymouth. -
The fist thanksgiving was a celebrated with the natives and pilgrims. -
Rhode Island first state to establish freedom to religion. -
The people in South Carolina wanted to have their own government from North Carolina. They got their own governor and were officially made a British colony in 1729. -
Georgia was first founded by James Oglethorpe who landed in Savannah. -
King George ll decreed what is now the border between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, and separated the governorship's issuing a commission to Benning Wentworth as New Hampshire governor -
Pennsylvania's capital, Philadelphia, was the site of the first and second Continental Congresses, the latter of which produced the Declaration of Independence, sparking the American Revolution.