All the Colonies

By aodom1

  • Settles Roanoke.

    Settles Roanoke.
    The English tried again to settle Roanoke.

  • Company of London.

    Company of London.
    English merchants started the Virginia Company of London.

  • 100 men and boys.

    100 men and boys.
    About 100 men and boys traveled to Present Day Virginia.

  • Life in Jamestown.

    Life in Jamestown.
    Life in Jamestown was still hard but smith went back to England in 1609.

  • Tobaco grows well in Virginia.

    Tobaco grows well in Virginia.
    A settler named John Rolfe learned from local Indians who tought him that tobaco grows well in Virginias hot humid weather.

  • A wife for John Rolfe.

    A wife for John Rolfe.
    John Rolfe got married to Pocahontas.

  • The Mayflower.

    The Mayflower.
    In 1620 about 100 men, woman and children set sail across the Atlantic Ocean in the English ship called the Mayflower.

  • The first Thanksgiving

    The first Thanksgiving
    Governor William Bradford held a celebration feast called Thanksgiving.

  • Salem North of Plymouth.

    Salem North of Plymouth.
    In 1630 Winthrop and his followers arrived in the town of Salem North of Plymouth in June 1630.

  • William Penn gets land in the New World.

    William Penn gets land in the New World.
    King Charles the 2nd decided in 1681 to give William Penn land in the New World that was Southwest of New Jersey.