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A group of settlers settle in Roanoke
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The people inside of Roanoke suddenly vanish
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King James issues royal charter to divide seaborder
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144 men are sent sailing to Virginia
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They reach Chesapeake Bay and go 60 miles north the James river to Jamestown
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Settlers find how to grow Tobacco and do so
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First slaves arrive from Africa
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Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth
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King rejects Virginia company's charter and in turn it becomes a colony
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Massachusetts Bay Company sends more Puritan separatists to America
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Crown grants 12 mil acres of land to Lord Baltimore who calls it Maryland after the queen
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King Charles II gave land between New England and Virginia to his brother
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Connecticut and New Haven merge
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Kind granted 45000 square miles of land to William Penn, Pennsylvania
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Carolina splits into North and South
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Georgia colony established as a buffer zone between South Carolina and Spanish Florida