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The settlement of Roanoke was established.
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In 1590 the Roanoke colony vanished.
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King James issued a royal charter which divided the atlantic seaboard in two.
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The London company sent 144 men to Virginia on three ships.
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The London company reached Chesapeake Bay, headed sixty miles up the James River and built the settlement of Jamestown.
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Virginia settlers learned how to grow tobacco.
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The first african slaves arrived in Virginia.
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The first pilgrims arrived in Plymouth.
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Virginias royal charter was revoked and it became a royal colony.
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Crown granted 12 million acres of land at the top of Chesapeake Bay to Cecilius Calvert, the second lord of Baltimore.
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King Charles the second gave territory between New England and Virginia to his brother, the duke of York.
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Connecticut and New Haven were formed.
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King Granted 45,000 square miles of land west of Delaware to William Penn, a quaker with lots of land in Ireland.
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James Oglethorpe established the Georgia colony.
