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1585-About one hundred English men settled on Roanoke Island,an island just off the coast of North Carolina.
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1587-The English tried again to settle in Roanoke Island.
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1606-English merchants started the Virginia Company of London.Their goal was to build a settlment in North America.
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1607-About 100 men and boys traveled to present-day Virginia. They named their colony Jamestown. This is how Jamestown started.
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1609-Smith went back to England and during the following winter known as the ''staving time" most of the colonists died.
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1612-A settler named John Rolfe learned from local American Indians that tobacco grew well in Virginia's hot humid weather because many people in England smoked tobacco.
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1619-The first Africans arrived in Jamestown. They were probably indentured servants which means they were someone who agreed to work for a number of years to pay for the cost of the voyage to North America.
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1620-The Pilgrims arrived on the Mayflower with very little supplies.
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1621-The colony was religous,so they called it Thanksgiving a term they used for prayer and fasting.That was there first successful harvest so, the governer decied to have a feast and they also invited nintey Wampongs.
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1681-William Penn is let out of prison and King CharlesII decided to give him land in the New World for a loan.
