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explorations Spanish and French inspired the English. In 1606, a company of London investors received from King James a charter to found a colony in North America. In late 1606, the company’s three ships, and more than 100 settlers, pushed out of an English harbor.
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Four months later, in 1607, they reached the coast of Virginia. The colonists claimed the land as theirs. They named the settlement Jamestown in honor the king.
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A group known as Pilgrims founded a second English colony, Plymouth, in Massachusetts. Persecuted for their religious beliefs in England, these colonists sought religious freedom.
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English king, Charles II, gave his brother, the Duke of York, permission to drive out the Dutch. When the duke’s fleet arrived at New Netherlands . The Duke of York claimed the colony for England and renamed it New York.
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French Jesuit priest ,Jacques Marquette, and trader Louis Joliet explored the Great Lakes and the upper Mississippi River.