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Queen Elizabeth allowed Walter Raleigh to send 100 men from England to Roanoke Island
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When the settlers returned, they found that the men they had sent had been killed.
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A group of over 100 men landed on the banks of Virginia's James River.
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Samuel de Champlain founded Quebec in 1608.
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Captain Smith returns to England in 1609 when he became ill and
Pocahontas stops visiting the settlement. -
The House of Burgesses was established in 1619 in Jamestown.
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The Pilgrims survived a storm that knocked them of course and ended up Plymouth.
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Governor William Bradford held a celebration feast in 1621 that lasted three days.
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Governor Peter Minuit founded New Amsterdam in 1626.
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Governor John Winthrop founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
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