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