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Oct 10, 1580
Walter Raleigh comes to the New World
Walter Raleigh was came over to the new world with the mayflower and the people on the mayflower came with him. When Walter Raleigh came to the new world he dicovered stuff that he has never seen before. -
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13 colonies
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Jamestown established
The house of burgesess first met July 30,1619, making it the first elected assembly of Europeans in the Americans. The Jamsetown colonists discovered that Virginia had the perfect soil and climate for growing tobacco. -
pilgrims settle
Plymouth Rock is the traditional site of disembarkation of William bradford and the mayflower pilgrims who founded plymouth colony in 1620. It is an important symbol in American history. -
The Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact, signed by 41 English colonist on the ship Mayflower on November 11,1620. In the 1600's the ocean was full of dangeres stuff like sharkes, and swordfish. -
First Thanksgiving
By the fall of 1621, the pilgrims had built seven houses in the plymouth colony. With the help of squanto, they learned to grow maize and barley. -
puritans arrive
The puritans named their first settlement in boston. By 1640 about 20,000 colonists lived near the shores of the charles and mystic rivers, which help form the peninsula of boston.
