The 13 Colonies

  • First English settlement established

  • Roanoke vanished

  • Atlantic seaboard divided in two

  • London Company sent some men to Virginia

  • They built a settlement they called Jamestown.

  • Virginia’s settlers learned how to grow tobacco

  • African slaves arrived in Virginia

  • The Pilgrims was founded

  • King revoked in the company it became a royal colony

  • Crown granted 12 million acres of land

  • King Charles II gave territory between New England and Virginia to his brother

  • Connecticut and New Haven were combined

  • king gave 45,000 sq. miles of Delaware River to William Penn

  • James Oglethorpe established the Georgia colony