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Sir Walter Raleigh received his charter from Queen Elizabeth.
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The Virginia Company founded the Chesapeake Bay on the Jamestown River.
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Plymouth was founded
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John Rolfe planted the first successful tobacco crop in Jamestown.
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In 1620 the Pilgrims founded Cap Cod they were motivatied by religious freedom.
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Puritans arrived in Massachusetts and named it Boston.
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Thomas Hooker led followers west and south to the rich soil of the Connecticut River Vally.
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Anne Hutchinson and her followers formed Portsmouth, another Rhode Island settlement.
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The toleration Act made religious freedom for Christians in Maryland.
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Carolinas population was so big that they split it in two.
