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Roanoke
First English settlement established July 22, 1587 -
Roanoke vanishes
August 18 1590 the Roanoke colony disappeared completly -
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The making of Jamestown
December 20, 1606, English explorers set to sea with 144 men on three ships named the Godspeed, the Discovery and the Susan Constant.
reached the Chesapeake Bay on May 14 1607 and headed about 60 miles up the James River, where they built a settlement they called Jamestown -
life in jamestown
the colonists were very busy looking for gold and other recources that they could barely feed their colony.
virginias settlers then learned how to grow tobacco.
in 1619 the first African slaves arrived in jamestown -
plymouth and the pilgrims
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 in 1620.
Ten years later, the Massachusetts Bay Company sent a much larger group of Puritans to establish another Massachusetts settlement
then with the help of the native Americans the colonists got the hang of fishing, hunting, farming, and Massachusetts prospered -
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Maryland
"1632, crown granted 12 million acres of land at the top of the Chesapeake Bay to Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore." the colony was called maryland after the queen
the landowners would plant tobacco on a large scale these depended on indentured servants and later slaves
Lord Baltimore was Catholic. he wanted his colony to be a refuge for persecuted Catholics. -
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Carolina colonies
Carolina colony stretched south from Virginia to Florida and west to the Pacific Ocean
In its northern half, there were small farms
In its southern half, there were large estates that produced corn, lumber, beef and pork, and--starting in the 1690s—rice
then the colony Split in 1712 -
The making of new york
in 1664 king charles the second gave territory between New England and Virginia to his brother, the Duke of York. then he proceeded to rename the land to new york since english had soon absorbed dutch. Althought english absorbed the dutch language Dutch people (Belgian Flemings & Walloons, French Huguenots, Scandinavians and Germans) who were living there stayed. This made New York one of the most diverse and prosperous colonies in the New World. -
pennsylvania
in 1680 the king granted 4500 square miles of land west of Delaware River to William Penn, a Quaker with lots of land in Ireland that land would be called “Penn’s Woods,” or Pennsylvania. fertile soil & religious toleration - people came from all over Europe.
most were not indentured servants
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Georgia
In 1732, inspired by the need to build a buffer between South Carolina and the Spanish settlements in Florida, the Englishman James Oglethorpe established the Georgia colony.
In many ways, Georgia’s development mirrored South Carolina’s.