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a group of colonists settled on the island of Roanoke
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the colony on Roanoke vanished entirely
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The northern half of the Atlantic Seaboard was given to the Pymouth company. The southern half was given to the London. The division was caused by King James I issuing a royal charter.
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The London Company sent 144 men on 3 ships to Virginia
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the London Company arrives on Chesapeake bay and built a settlements called Jamestown
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Virginia's settlers learned how to grow tobacco
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first African slaves arrived
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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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king revoked the Virginia Company's charter and it became a royal colony
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the Massachusetts Bay Company sent a much larger group of puritans to establish another Massachusetts settlement
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the crown granted 12 million acres of land at the top of Cesapeake bay to Cecilius Calvert, the second lord baltimore.
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King Charles II gave territory between New England and Virginia to his brother, Duke of York
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puritans who thought that Massachusetts was not pious enough formed Connecticut and New Haven
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king granted 45,000 square miles of land wet of delaware river to William Penn
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Carolina's split, making North Carolina and South Carolina
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inspired by the need to build a buffer between South Carolina and the Spanish settlements of florida, Englishmen James Oglethorpe established the colony of Georgia