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The establishment of the Roanoke Colony was an attempt by Sir Walter Raleigh to found the first permanent English settlement in America -
It was the first permanent English settlement in the New World at Jamestown. -
The Plymouth Colony was a British colony in present-day Massachusetts that was founded in 1620 by a group of English Puritans known as the Pilgrims. -
The first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621 over a three day harvest festival. -
New York used to be called New Amsterdam. -
The Connecticut Colony wrote and adopted the Fundamental orders, in 1639. -
Many English settlers migrated south from Virginia into the areas of North Carolina to establish new colonies. -
South Carolina became one of the wealthiest early colonies in the world due to cotton, rise, tobacco, and indigo dye. -
between 1611 and 1614 part of New Jersey was known as New Netherlands. -
In 1681 Englishman William Penn, a member of a Christian group called the Quakers, founded the British colony known as Pennsylvania.