The 13 Colonies

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  • A company of English merchants asked King James I for the right to found a new settlement

  • The Kind granted the request of the company to settle in a region called Virigina

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  • The first 105 colonists sent by London Company arrived in America

  • Pilgrims moved to the Netherlands

  • John Smith took control of Jamestown and built a fort

  • 400 more settlers arrived in Jamestown

  • Only 60 colonists had survived through the winter

  • Dutch founded Netherlands

  • John Rolfe married Pocahontas

  • Dutch ship brought the first Africans to Virginia

  • Virginia's assembly was established

  • Mayflower Compact was signed and Mayflower left England

  • Calvert asked King Charles I for a charter to make a new catholic colony

  • Samoset came to the colonists' settlement

  • Colonists killed a Powhatan leader

  • The English canceled the London Company's charter

  • Charles granted Puritans and Merchants a charter to settle in New England

  • Fleet of ships left England for religious freedom

  • Charles issued the charter to Calvert's son

  • Charles II gave Carolina to eight of his supporters

  • Many English people left England

  • 200 English Catholics came to Maryland

  • Hokker and his followers left Massachutes to help found Connecticut

  • Hooker wrote the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

  • Protestants moved to Maryland

  • General court became a two house

  • Toleration act enacted

  • English fleet captured New Amsterdam

  • Charles II granted Penn a charter to begin a colony west of New Jersey

  • Duke of York sold Penn a region south of Pennsylvania

  • James II became King of England

  • James II united the Northern Colonies under one government

  • English Bill Of Rights passed

  • 45% of women and 70% of men in New England could read and write

  • Carolina split into two different colonies

  • Proprietary government was overthrown

  • Crown made the Carolinas royal colonies

  • King George II granted a charter to Oglethorpe to found Georgia

  • Oglethorpe and 120 colonists founded the city of Savannah

  • 135,000 indentured servants came to the middle colonies

  • British government made Georgia a royal colony with new laws

  • Philadelphia is the largest British colonial city

  • Delaware is no longer part of Pennsylvania