Colonies

The 13 Colonies

  • First English Settlement on Roanoke

  • Roanoke Colony vanished (unknown how)

  • King James I (became charter) which divided Atlantic soberb

  • 'The London Company' sent 144 men to Virginia

  • The 144 men reach Chesapeake Bay

  • The 144 men found Jamestown

  • Virginia Settlers learn how to grow tobacco

  • First African Slaves

  • Pilgrims Arrive (English Emigrants) in Plymouth

  • King revoked (got back) 'The Virginia Company's' charter and it becomes a royal colony

  • King granted 12 acres of land above Chesapeake Bay, to Cecilius Calvert, Second Lord Baltimore

  • King Charles II gave territory between New England and Virginia to his brother, The Duke of York

  • Connecticut and New Haven are formed (because Massachusetts is not "good enough"), then the two combined

  • King granted 45,00 square miles of land in modern Pennsylvania (Penn's Woods)

  • Carolina Colony split into North and South Carolina

  • Georgia Colony is founded to divide Spanish and English colony