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Roanoke is founded under the sponsorship of Sir Walter Raleigh. It disappears a few years later. https://www.britannica.com/story/the-lost-colony-of-roanoke -
Many young English people migrated to America.
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Jamestown, the longest lasting English settlement, is founded. https://www.britannica.com/place/Jamestown-Colony -
House of Burgesses is established, to be used as a meeting hall for a governing body of England. https://www.britannica.com/topic/House-of-Burgesses -
The Mayflower sets sail, landing in Cape Cod. The settlement is named Plymouth. The Mayflower compact was signed aboard the Mayflower. It laid the framework for the Plymouth government. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mayflower-Compact -
King Charles creates the province of Carolina, though north and south colonies will split in 1670.https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/north-carolina -
The colony is founded in 1630 by Puritans seeking religious freedom. https://www.britannica.com/place/Massachusetts-Bay-Colony -
Maryland is established as a haven for Roman Catholics. https://www.britannica.com/place/Maryland-state/The-colony -
Rhode Island is founded by Roger Williiams after he is banished from Massachusetts. https://www.britannica.com/place/Rhode-Island-state/History -
Connecticut is founded and its borders are finalized.https://www.britannica.com/place/Connecticut/Government-and-society -
The British laxly enforced taxes and barely paid attention to America's need for a government that wasn't across an ocean. https://www.britannica.com/topic/salutary-neglect -
New Amsterdam is captured and renamed New York. -
Nathaniel Bacon holds an armed rebellion against William Berkeley. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nathaniel-Bacon -
Parliament grants freedom of worship to nonconformists.
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William Penn founds Pennsylvania as a home for him and his fellow Quakers.https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/pennsylvania -
Many young girls are tried and executed for "witchcraft" https://www.britannica.com/event/Salem-witch-trials -
A religious revival led by George Whitfield. He urged people to recognize their own sinfulness and the rationalism in New England.https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Awakening -
A fight between France and Great Britain, to determine who owned America. Specifically, a fight that started over who owned the upper Ohio river valley.(apparently, no one thought to ask the Natives.) https://www.britannica.com/event/French-and-Indian-War -
Benjamin Franklin proposes a unified government for the British.
colonies.https://www.britannica.com/event/Albany-Congress -
England declared that no one could move into previously settled Native land. https://www.britannica.com/event/Proclamation-of-1763