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A timeline of the 13 Colonies.
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Queen Elizabeth allows Walter Raleigh to send 100 men to the New World.
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John White returns to Roanoke to find the Colony deserted. There is one word caved in a tree nearby. "CROATOAN"
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A group of men land on the banks of Virginia's James River. Jamestown was later going to be the first permanent Colony.
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John Smith becomes ill and is forced by health issues to return to England.
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John Smith dies in England four years after returning from Jamestown.
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Jamestown held the first elected assembly in 1619.
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The Pilgrims land in Cape Cod. They later travel to Plymouth which is a rocky harbor that has a huge rock they called Plymouth Rock.
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The Pilgrims have the first thanksgiving with the native tribe. They invited the Chief, Squanto and other Natives.
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King Charles gives land to William Penn in the New World. The king gave him land because he owed a debt to William's father.
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William Penn founds Pennsylvania. Sylvania means forest land and Penn is William's last name. That is how Pennsylvania was named.
