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Elizabeth I granting Sir Walter Raleigh a Royal Charter to colonize Virginia
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The first English settlement in North America was established
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The Roanoke colony had vanished entirely
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King James I issued Royal Charter which divided the Atlantic seaboard in two
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The London Company sent 144 men to Virginia on three ships
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They reached the Chesapeake Bay and headed about 60 miles up the James River, where they built a settlement they called Jamestown.
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when Virginia’s settlers learned how to grow tobacco, that it seemed the colony might survive.
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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
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wealthy syndicate known as the Massachusetts Bay Company sent a much larger (and more liberal) group of Puritans to establish another Massachusetts settlement.
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the English crown granted about 12 million acres of land at the top of the Chesapeake Bay to Cecilius Calvert,
This colony, named Maryland after the queen, was similar to Virginia in many ways.
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King Charles II gave the territory between New England and Virginia, much of which was already occupied by Dutch traders and landowners called patroons, to his brother James, the Duke of York. With is know New York
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the king granted 45,000 square miles of land west of the Delaware River to William Penn, a Quaker who owned large swaths of land in Ireland. Penn’s North American holdings became the colony of “Penn’s Woods,” or Pennsylvania.
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It split into North Carolina and South Carolina in 1729.
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inspired by the need to build a buffer between South Carolina and the Spanish settlements in Florida, the Englishman James Oglethorpe established the Georgia colony