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Sixteenth-century England was a difficult place.
many of the nation’s landowners were converting farmers’ fields into pastures for sheep Because they could make more money from selling wool than from selling food.
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first English settlement established July 22, 1587, when a group of colonists (91 men, 17 women and nine children) settled on the island of Roanoke.
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colony had vanished entirely.
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King James I issued Royal Charter which divided the Atlantic seaboard in two
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the London Company sent 144 men to Virginia on three ships: the Godspeed, the Discovery and the Susan Constant.
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Virginia’s settlers learned how to grow tobacco, it seemed the colony might survive.
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The first African slaves arrived in Virginia in 1619
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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
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King revoked the Virginia Company’s charter and it became a royal colony.
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King Charles II gave territory between New England and Virginia (already occupied by Dutch traders and landowners) to his brother, the Duke of York.
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Puritans who thought that Massachusetts was not pious enough formed Connecticut and New Haven
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king granted 45,000 sq. miles of land west of Delaware River to William Penn, a Quaker with lots of land in Ireland
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In its southern half, there were large estates that produced corn, lumber, beef and pork, and--starting in the 1690s—rice
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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.
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