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Slave trade begins.
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1500 to 1700
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Spain builds a fort in St . Augustine
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The Queen at the time allowed Walter Raleigh to send over 100 men to the Roanoke Colony.
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The colonists are killed in The Colony Of Roanoke giving it the name The Lost Colony.
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The colonists arrive in Jamestown in Virginia. Jamestown was also the first permanent settlement.
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The Pilgrims and Puritans arrived Massachusetts for Religious freedom.
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Puritans set up Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
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Metacom leads a fight in New England against settlers.
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William Penn finds the colony of Pennsylvania.
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Plantations start to use African slaves heavily.