13 colonies

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  • Elizabeth I granting Sir Walter Raleigh a Royal Charter to colonize Virginia

  • division of Atlantic Seaboard

    King James decided to divide Atlantic Seaboard in two and give them to two company which are London company and the Plymouth company.
  • Rhode Island

    Colonists begun to settle in Rhode Island in1620, the official colony who came there was in 1636.
  • Massachusett

    The pilgrims arrived in Plymouth in 1620, it named Massachusett 10 years after that.
  • Maryland

    Maryland founded a s a proprietary Colony by Lord Baltimore
  • first colony of Delaware valley.

    Delaware valley was combined by the Swedish settlers.
  • Carolina

    Carolina colony was founded in 1663.
  • New York

    King Charles II made a territory with his brother, The Duke of York, English people renamed it New York soon after that.
  • Connecticut and New Heaven are combined in 1665.

  • New Hampshire

    New Hampshire became Royal colony in 1679, before it is a part of Massechusetts.
  • Pennsylvania

    The king gave 45000 square miles of land to William Penn, the land became the colony of ''Penn's wood''-Pennsylvania.
  • New Jersey

    New Jersey was a part of New Netherland which was colonized by the Dutch, English controlled it and divided into East and West New Jersey, it united in 1702.
  • North and South Carolina

    Carolina colony split in half in 1712, North Carolina is for small farms, and South is for Corn, Lumber, Beef, Pork......
  • establishment of Georgea

    The Englishman James Oglethopre established the Georgea colony because they needs to have a buffer between South Carolina and the Spanish colony in Florida.