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New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia To from the United States
They were found over a span of 125 years -
first English settlement established July 22, 1587, when a group of colonists (91 men, 17 women and nine children) settled on the island of Roanoke.
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August 18 1590 colony had vanished entirely.
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April 10 1606, King James I issued Royal Charter which divided the Atlantic seaboard in two
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December 20, 1606, the London Company sent 144 men to Virginia on three ships: the Godspeed, the Discovery and the Susan Constant.
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reached the Chesapeake Bay on May 14 1607 and headed about 60 miles up the James River, where they built a settlement they called Jamestown.
reached the Chesapeake Bay on April 26 1607 and founded Jamestown on May 14. -
In1616, 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 in 1619.
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First English emigrants to what would become the New England colonies were a small group of Puritan separatists, later called the Pilgrims, who arrived in Plymouth in 1620.
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1624 - King revoked the Virginia Company’s charter and it became a royal colony.
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1632, 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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1664: 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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Puritans who thought that Massachusetts was not pious enough formed Connecticut and New Haven (the two combined in 1665).
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1680: 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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In its southern half, there were large estates that produced corn, lumber, beef and pork, and--starting in the 1690s—rice
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Split in 1712 (dates vary)
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In 1732, 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.