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A group of colonists settled on the island of Roanoke.
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Colony settled in Roanoke disappears.
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James I issues a royal charter which divides the Atlantic seaboard in two.
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The London company sends 144 men to Virginia on ships
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Men sent to Virginia reach the Chesapeake Bay.
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Jamestown is founded.
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Virginia's settlers learned how to grow Tobacco.
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First African slaves arrive in Virginia
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Pilgrims Arrive
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King revokes the Virginia's company's charter and it becomes a royal colony. England takes more control of things in Virginia.
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The Massachusetts bay company sent a much larger and more liberal group of puritans to establish another Massachusetts settlement.
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Crown grants 12 million acres of land at the top of Chesapeake bay to Cecilius Calvert the second Lord Baltimore. The colony is
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King Charles II gives territory between new England and Virginia to his brother
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King granted 45,000 SQ Miles of land west of Delaware river to William Penn and Quaker with lots of land in Ireland.
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The southern half split
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Inspired by the need to build a buffer between South Carolina and the Spanish settlements in Florida, the English men James Oglethorpe established the Georgia colony.