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In 1585 Queen Elizabeth sent Sir Walter Raleigh and colonist to the coast of Roanoke island.
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In 1588 John Winthrop founded Massachusetts and formed a colony in 1588.
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In 1610 a group of men called the Virginia company and found land & named it Jamestown.
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In 1619 the first African Americans arrived in Virginia and formed a colony
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In 1620 Pilgrims sailed on the mayflower to Virginia but instead clocked in the north known as New England.
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Fall of 1620 invited Wampanoag tribe to a great harvested feast now known as thanksgiving.
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In 1632 Lord Baltimore Founded the formed the Maryland colony.
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William Penn found the state of Pennsylvania and formed a colony in 1644.
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In 1673 Count De Frontenac sent people to Mississippi to find the Mississippi River.
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In 1733 James Oglethorpe found the Georgia colony.
