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  White was forced to sail back to England a second time to get needed supplies. He left the colonist involving his grandaughter Virginia in Roanoke.
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  The english defeated the Spanish Armada or fleet of spanish ships in 1588. This inspired the english to take control of land in Armadas the spanish had.
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  The Plymouth company sponsored the Sagadonoc colony at the mouth of the Kennedy river in Maine.
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  John Rolfe developed a high grade tobacco that the colonist legend grow.
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  The first African American arrived in Jamestown.
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  The dutch founded the colony of New Netherland obn the eastern coast of the North America.
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  Peter stuyvesant the new goverment arrived in the city of the New Amsterdam in May 1647.
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  In 1681 KIng Charles the second gave pen a large piece of land in America that came to be called Pennsylvania.