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Queen Elizabeth allowed Raleigh to send 100 men from England to Roanoke island after 2 of his explorers found it would be a perfect place for settlement.
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The people who came to Roanoke island were not friendly to the natives and killed their chief explorers arrived too late to harvest the crops and their supplies were running low they went back home. Fifteen men came back with supplies and stayed in the fort
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Raleigh was not happy with this and hired Simon Fernandez to transport 100 people (including women and children) to start more permanent settlement close to Chesapeake Bay upon arrival they found men killed by the natives John White was in charge
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By the time they got back Spain invaded England but England won John White returned by he say non of his people were there at Roanoke island but found a tree with ¨CROATOAN¨ carved in it he went to the village but a hurricane forced them to go back to England
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100 men landed on the banks of Virginia´s James River which was not clean to drink they immediately attacked by some natives but they were determined to stay they built a fort John Smith was the leader but a severe winter pounded their settlement they were running out of food and getting sick only 60 men survived the winter also they named the place Jamestown
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John Smith returned to England then stopped visiting the settlement at Jamestown
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John Smith died
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This year was a big year for Jamestown the African american´s were brought as slaves and first elected assembly was established it was called The House Of Burgesses.
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This was when the Mayflower was going to the new world people who were on board were the Separatists, or Pilgrims they were going for religious freedom
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More people were going in different land but these were the Middle Colonies one of them was Pennsylvania but it was going to be called Sylvania but now it´s Pennsylvania