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Founding of Jamestown settlement in 1607
In 1606, just a few months after James I issued its charter, the London Company sent 144 men to Virginia on three ships: the Godspeed, the Discovery and the Susan Constant. They reached the Chesapeake Bay in the spring of 1607 and headed about 60 miles up the James River, where they built a settlement they called Jamestown. http://www.history.com/topics/thirteen-colonies -
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Settlement of Jamestown Virginia to Forming of Constitution
1607 Jamestown settled.
7/4/1776 Declaration of Independence signed by all thirteen colonies to form sovereign, independent states.
1783 End of the Revolutionary War
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New England Colonies
The 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. -
The Middle Colonies
In 1664, King Charles II gave the territory between New England and Virginia, much of which was already occupied by Dutch traders and landowners called patroons, to his brother James, the Duke of York. http://www.history.com/topics/thirteen-colonies -
Southern Colonies Slave trade
These Carolinians had close ties to the English planter colony on the Caribbean island of Barbados, which relied heavily on African slave labor, and many were involved in the slave trade themselves. As a result, slavery played an important role in the development of the Carolina colony. (It split into North Carolina and South Carolina in 1729.) -
Georgia Colony Established
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. http://www.history.com/topics/thirteen-colonies -
American Revolutionary War
The American Revolution was a political upheaval that took place between 1765 and 1783. The war was a result of the colonists rejecting the authority of the British parliament. -
Boston Massacre
The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a "patriot" mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party (initially referred to by John Adams as "the Destruction of the Tea in Boston") was a political protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, on December 16, 1773.
The Sons of Liberty, some disguised as Native Americans, in defiance of the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, which had 342 chests of tea on board. -
Decleration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence is the usual name of a statement adopted by the continental congress on July 4, 1776. It was an announcement that the 13 colonies were now independent and sovereign states. https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/ten-dates-related-to-the-13-colonies -
U.S. Constitution
The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States. Wikipedia
