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Queen Elizabeth gave Sir Walter Raleigh his charter to find Roanoke.
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Jamestown was the first British settlement.
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Tobacco was founded in Jamestown, this was their first successful cash crop.
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First Pilgrims landed in Plymouth.
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A ship called the Mayflower left England to go to America.
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A group of wealthy Puritans formed the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Massachusetts became a colony.
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Connecticut settlers attacked the Pequot. Started because the greedy settlers wanted more food, resources, and land.
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The Toleration Act made religious freedom the law for Christians in Maryland.
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Colonists decided to split their colony in two- North Carolina and South Carolina.
