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english men settled at roanoke island off the coast of present-day north carolina
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there are thirteen colonys in all of america
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in 1606, English merchants started the Virginia Company of London
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in 1607, about 100 men and boys traveled to present-day Virginia
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In 1612, a settler named jhon rolfe learned from local American Indians
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100 men and women sailed across the atlantic ocean on the mayflower
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the mayflower compact was written plan for government in North America
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fulby the fall of 1621, the colony had become more successful
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plymouth moved a few miles south were they began a new colony
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by the 1640s, as many as 20,000 english puritans had moved to what is now the northeastern part of the united states
