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Englishmen boarded the boats "the Susan Constant, the Godspeed," and "the discovery." They traveled up the James River and built Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in the United States.
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The Virginia Company created the House of Burgesses. The House of Burgesses was primarily made up of white land owners.
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Dutch slave ships brought twenty African slaves to Virginia colonists.
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One-hundred Pilgrims, men and women, set sail on the Mayflower and arrived at Plymouth.
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John Winthrop, along with other Puritans, traveled north of Plymouth to find and colonize Massachusetts Bay. John Winthrop became the governor.
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George Calvert was a Catholic man given a charter from King Charles I to establish a colony north of Virginia. After he died, Calver's sons established and assumed control of Maryland.
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Roger Williams was a Puritan minister that believed he was more pure than the rest of the Puritans. For this he was banished from Massachusetts Bay. In his banishment, he bought land from Indians, from which Rhode Island was born.
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Thomas Hooker disagreed with the leaders in Massachusetts Bay. He left with his family and about one-hundred others to establish Connecticut. In 1636, Hartford was established and in 1639, Connecticut became a colony.
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Carolina was granted to eight proprietors. The first charter of government, written by John Locke, was largely ignored by the people already living in Carolina.
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New York, originally New Netherlands, was handed over from the Dutch to the Duke of York. The Duke of York gave some of the land to two of his friends, which temporarily created East and West Jersey.
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Charles II gave William Penn, a Quaker, a charter to form a large colony south of New York. It would be called Pennsylvania.
