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Jamestown, Virginia was picked, for their settlement, which was named after their King, James. It was the first permanent English settlement in North America
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The Mayflower Compact was an agreement that bound the signers to obey the government and legal system established in Plymouth Colony, which was founded by pilgrams.
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The Puritans began to look for a place where they could avoid persecution and build a community of their own. People came there for religious reasons.
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Georgia was the last of the thirteen colonies to be founded. Georgia would be a philanthropic and military enterprise that would provide the “worthy” poor a new start