The 13 Colonies

By JHMS
  • Elizabeth I granting Sir Walter Raleigh a Royal Charter

    Elizabeth I granting Sir Walter Raleigh a Royal Charter to colonize Virginia
  • Roanoke was estabilished

    The first English settlement in North America was established
  • Roanoke vanished

    The Roanoke colony had vanished entirely
  • King James I issued Royal Charter

    King James I issued Royal Charter which divided the Atlantic seaboard in two
  • Sent ships to America

    The London Company sent 144 men to Virginia on three ships
  • They reached the Chesapeake Bay

    They reached the Chesapeake Bay and headed about 60 miles up the James River, where they built a settlement they called Jamestown.
  • Virginia learned how to grow tabacoo

    when Virginia’s settlers learned how to grow tobacco, that it seemed the colony might survive.
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  • The first African slaves arrived in Virginia

  • Pilgrims arive in America

    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
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  • Massachusetts sent a lot group to stabilish another settlemnt

    wealthy syndicate known as the Massachusetts Bay Company sent a much larger (and more liberal) group of Puritans to establish another Massachusetts settlement.
  • Maryland colony started

    the English crown granted about 12 million acres of land at the top of the Chesapeake Bay to Cecilius Calvert,
    This colony, named Maryland after the queen, was similar to Virginia in many ways.
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  • King Charles II gave land to his brother

    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. With is know New York
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  • Connectious and New Heaven combined

  • The king granted land to Willian Penn

    the king granted 45,000 square miles of land west of the Delaware River to William Penn, a Quaker who owned large swaths of land in Ireland. Penn’s North American holdings became the colony of “Penn’s Woods,” or Pennsylvania.
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  • Carolina split

    It split into North Carolina and South Carolina in 1729.
  • Georgia was estabilished

    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