The 13 Colonies

By mariacbento

  • First english settlement

    When a group of 117 (91 men, 17 women and nine children) colonists settled on the island of Roanoke

  • Colony completely vanishes

    Historians do not know the cause of this

  • King James I issued a royal charter

    This caused the Atlantic seaboard to split in two

  • The London company sends 144 men to Virginia on ships

    They sent the men on three different ships: The GodSpeed, The Discovery, and Susan Constant

  • Men sent on ships reach the Chesapeake Bay

    Headed 60 miles up the James River, where the build a settlement call Jamestown

  • Virginia's settlers learned to grow tobacco

    This made it apparent that the colony might survive

  • First African slaves arrive in America

  • Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth

    A small group of puritan separatists; first English emigrants to what would become the New England colonies

  • King revokes the Virgina Company's charter

    It then became a royal colony

  • The Massachusetts Bay Company sends much larger and liberal group of Puritans to establish another Massachusetts settlement

  • Crown grants 12 million acres of land

    At the top of the Chesapeake Bay to Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore

  • King Charles II gives territory to his brother, The Duke of York

    Gives his brother territory between New England and Virginia, already occupied by Dutch traders and landowners

  • Puritans form Connecticut and New Haven

    Puritans who thought Massachusetts was not pious enough

  • King is granted 45,000 SQ. miles of land

    Land west of Delaware River to William Penn, a Quaker with lots of land in Ireland

  • The Southern Colonies split

  • James Oglethorpe establishes the Georgia Colony

    Inspired by the need to build a buffer between North Carolina and the Spanish settlements in Florida