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when we found north carolina
english men settled at roanoke island off the coast of present-day north carolina -
the thirteen colonys
there are thirteen colonys in all of america -
the first london company
in 1606, English merchants started the Virginia Company of London -
present-day virginia
in 1607, about 100 men and boys traveled to present-day Virginia -
jhon rolfe
In 1612, a settler named jhon rolfe learned from local American Indians -
100 men and women on the mayflower
100 men and women sailed across the atlantic ocean on the mayflower -
the mayflower compact
the mayflower compact was written plan for government in North America -
the first colony
fulby the fall of 1621, the colony had become more successful -
when plymouth was made
plymouth moved a few miles south were they began a new colony -
when the united states was born
by the 1640s, as many as 20,000 english puritans had moved to what is now the northeastern part of the united states
