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In 1606, King James I divided the Atlantic seaboard in two, giving the southern half to the London Company
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England's first attempt to establish a colony occurred in 1607 off the coast of Maine by the Plymouth Company, but it failed. Plymouth Colony was not established until 1620.
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The first English emigrants to what would become the New England colonies were a small group of Puritan separatists, later called the Pilgrims, who arrived in Plymouth in 1620.
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George and Cecil Calvert as a safe haven for Catholics.
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Roger Williams to have a place of religious freedom for all.
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Peter Minuit and the New Sweden Company. British took over in 1664.
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Originally part of the Province of Carolina. Split off from North Carolina in 1712.
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Between 1700 and 1775, the population of the colonies grew from approximately 250,000 to almost 2,500,000.
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By contrast, the Carolina colony, a territory that stretched south from Virginia to Florida and west to the Pacific Ocean, was much less cosmopolitan. In its northern half, hardscrabble farmers eked out a living.
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America Claimed it's independence from Great Britain. They did this by making the Declaration of Independence and making the important people in America sign the Declaration of Independence.
