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Elizabeth I granting Sir Walter Raleigh a Royal Charter to colonize Virginia
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13 Colonies Timeline
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They were found over a span of 125 years -
Roanoke
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. -
Roanoke
August 18 1590 colony had vanished entirely. -
Division of the Atlantic Seaboard
April 10 1606, King James I issued Royal Charter which divided the Atlantic seaboard in two -
Jamestown
December 20, 1606, the London Company sent 144 men to Virginia on three ships: the Godspeed, the Discovery and the Susan Constant. -
Jamestown
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.
reached the Chesapeake Bay on April 26 1607 and founded Jamestown on May 14. -
Life in Jamestown
In1616, Virginia’s settlers learned how to grow tobacco, it seemed the colony might survive -
Life in Jamestown
The first African slaves arrived in Virginia in 1619. -
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. -
House of Burgesses
1624 - King revoked the Virginia Company’s charter and it became a royal colony. -
The Tobacco Colonies
1632, crown granted 12 million acres of land at the top of the Chesapeake Bay to Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore. -
The Middle Colonies
1664: King Charles II gave territory between New England and Virginia (already occupied by Dutch traders and landowners) to his brother, the Duke of York. -
The New England Colonies
Puritans who thought that Massachusetts was not pious enough formed Connecticut and New Haven (the two combined in 1665). -
The Middle Colonies
1680: king granted 45,000 sq. miles of land west of Delaware River to William Penn, a Quaker with lots of land in Ireland -
The Southern Colonies
In its southern half, there were large estates that produced corn, lumber, beef and pork, and--starting in the 1690s—rice -
The Southern Colonies
Split in 1712 (dates vary) -
The Southern Colonies
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.