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Roanoke Island
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Spanish Amada
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Colonists can own land
Jamestown voyagers did when they set up English America's first permanent settlement was conduct an election. Nearly as soon as they landed—April 26, 1607, -
Captain John smith
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James Town
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House of Burgesses Meets
Met in a church at James town. the first legislative assembly in the American colonies, held its first meeting in the choir at Jamestown Church in the summer of 1619. -
Virginia Company sneds women
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King James declares Royal Colony
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African Americans
Africans free and could own property -
Dutch bring Africans
The Dutch East India Company established a small settlement at what is now Cape Town in 1652.
