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Queen Elizabeth sends 100 men from England to Roanoke
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People and events that helped create the original 13 colonies in the New World.
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CPT. John White left the Roanoke Colony in 1587 to get much needed supplies from England. He was not able to return until 1590 and when he did everyone in Roanoke disappeared. There was no one left and no one knew what happened to the Roanoke Settlers.
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Pocahontas was best known for helping the settlers in Jamestown. She was a member of the Powhatan tribe.
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Lead an expedition the the new world. He settled in Jamestown and was later captured by the Powhatan Indians. The Indians eventually released him and he settled into Jamestown.
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John Smith returns back to England after a gun explodes in his face and injuring him. He never returns back to Virginia.
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John Rolfe arrived in Virginia and created the first "cash crop" for the colonies. He brought tobacco seeds from the West Indies and grew them in Virginia.
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House of Burgesses was the first representative government in the New World. This was established to make sure the colonists had the same rights as poplin England.
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Mayflower brought the first English Puritans from England to the new world. Puritans signed the Mayflower Compact before leaving the ship.
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First Thanksgiving celebrated by the Pilgrims and Indians after the first fall harvest on Plymouth Planation.
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King Charles II owed money to William Penn's father. He paid his debt by giving his son, William Penn land in America.
