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A group of colonists (91 men, 17 women and nine children) settled on the island of Roanoke.
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colony had vanished entirely.
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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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They reached the Chesapeake Bay and headed about 60 miles up the James River, where they built a settlement they called Jamestown.
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Virginia’s settlers learned how to grow tobacco, it seemed the colony might survive.
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The first African slaves arrived in Virginia
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the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth
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King revoked the Virginia Company’s charter and it became a royal colony.
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crown granted 12 million acres of land at the top of the Chesapeake Bay 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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king granted 45,000 sq. miles of land west of Delaware River to William Penn, a Quaker with lots of land in Ireland
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inspired by the need to build a buffer between South Carolina and the Spanish settlements in Florida, the Englishman James Oglethorpe established the Georgia colony.