13 Colonies History

By mariaferreira

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

  • First English settlement in North America was established (Roanoke)

  • Roanoke Colony was vanished

  • King James I issued Royal Charter which divided the Atlantic seaboard in two

  • English sent people to Virginia

  • Founding of Georgia

  • English reached Chesapeake Bay

  • English learned how to plant tabacoo In Jamestown

  • African slaves arrived in Virginia

  • King Charles II gave the territory between New England and Virginia to his brother james

  • the colonies of Connecticut and New Haven combined

  • The King gave 45,000 miles to William Penn

    In 1680, the king granted 45,000 square miles of land west of the Delaware River to William Penn, a Quaker who owned large swaths of land in Ireland. Penn’s North American holdings became the colony of “Penn’s Woods,” or Pennsylvania.

  • rice was produced

  • North Carolina and South Carolina split

  • Englishman James Oglethorpe established the Georigia Colony

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