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The London Company reached the Chesapeake Bay after a year of traveling. They built a settlement named Jamestown.
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Virginia Settlers Learn how to grow tobacco. This helps them survive.
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The first enslaved African arrives in Virginia. Slavery begins.
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Pilgrims landed in Plymouth
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The English granted around 12 million acres of land this colony later became Maryland.
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King Charles ll gave territory to his brother James who was the Duke of York. It was later renamed New York.
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The settlements of Connecticut and New Haven Combine.
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The King granted 45,000 acres of land west of the Delaware River. This was later named Pennsylvania.
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The Carolina colony split and became North Carolina and South Carolina.
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Englishman James Oglethorpe established the Georgia Colony.
