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Colonies in the New World

By Blaine Harris

  • Queen Elizabeth grants Sir Walter Raleigh to colonize in Virginia

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    Founding of the Colonies in the New World

  • 1st English Settlement

    91 men, 17 women, 9 children

  • Coloney vanishes entirely

  • King James devides Atlantic seaboard into 2

    King James devidesthe Atlantic seaboard into 2.
    -Southern half given to the London Company
    -Northern half given to the London Company

  • London Company sends 144 men on The Godspeed, The Discovery and the Susan Constant

  • Settlers go up the James River 60 miles and build Jamestown at their destination

  • Settlers learn how to grow tobacco

  • The first African slaves arrive

  • Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth

  • King revokes the Virginia Company's charter

    Virginia becomes a royal coloney
    England take more control is Virginia

  • 12 Million acres of land at the top of the Chesapeake Bay is given to Lord Baltimore II

    The coloney is named Mary land

  • King Charles II gives New England and Virginia to his brother The Duke of York

  • Massachusetts and Conneticut are combined

  • The King grants 45,000 sq miles of land west of the Deleware River to a quaker named William Penn

  • The colonies begin planting rice

  • The southern colonies are split

  • James Oglethorpe established the Georgia coloney

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