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The first English settlement is established on the Island of Roanoke.
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The settlement of Roanoke vanished entirely.
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King James I issues royal charter which divided the Atlantic seaboard in two.
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The London company sent 144 men to Virginia on 3 ships the Godspeed, the Discovery and the Susan Constant.
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The settlers who created Jamestown arrived at Chesapeake Bay, which is 60 miles up the James River, on their 3 ships.
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The men that came to Virginia on the Godspeed, the Discovery and the Susan Constant built the settlement called Jamestown.
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Virginia's settlers learned to grow tobacco.
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Virginia had the first African Slaves arrive in 1619.
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The Pilgrims arrived.
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The King made Virginia a royal colony.
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The Crown granted 12 million acres of land to Cecilius Calvet, the 2nd Lord Baltimore. Which he named Maryland after the queen.
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King Charles II gave his brother, the Duke of York, territory between New England and Virginia.
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Puritans formed Connecticut and New Haven because they worried that Massachusetts wasn't pious enough.
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The King granted 45,000 square miles west of the Delaware River to William Penn.
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Carolina split into North and South Carolina in 1712.
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The Englishman James Oglethorpegst established the Georgia Colony.
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