Thirtheen Colonies

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  • Roanoke

    First English Settlement establishes when a group of colonists settled on the island Roanoke.

  • Roanoke vanished

    Roanoke colony vanished and historians do not know what happened to it's inhabitants.

  • 16th century England

    In the sixteenth century in England many of the nation's landowners converted the farmer's fields into pastures for sheep because they would make more money from wool than food. People were starving.

  • Division of the Atlantic Seaboard

    King James I declared to divide the Atlantic seaboard in two.The southern half was given to the London Company and later the Virginia Company. And the northern half was given to the Plymouth Company.

  • 144 men sent to Virginia

    London Company sent 144 men to Virginia on three ships: The Godspeed, The Discovery and The Susan Constant.

  • Jamestown

    Reached Chesapeake Bay and continued 60 miles up the James River, where they built a settlement called Jamestown.

  • Life in Jamestown

    People were so busy searching for gold and other resources that they would barely eat. But then Virginia's settlers learned to grow tobacco.

  • First African Slaves

    First African slaves arrived in Virginia.

  • Pilgrims

    The first English emigrants that would become the new England Colonies which were a small group of Puritan Separatists, Pilgrims, who arrived in Plymouth .

  • House of Burgesses

    Representatives could be elected. And house could make laws, which could be voted by the governor or directors of Virginia Company. In 1624 king revoked the Virginia Company's list of rules and it became a royal colony.

  • Massachusetts

    Massachusetts Bay Company sent a larger group of puritans to establish another Massachusetts settlement. With the help of Native Americans the colonists were farming, fishing and hunting and Massachusetts improved.

  • Tobacco colonies

    Crown granted 12 million acres of land at the top of Chesapeake Bay to Cecilius Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore . The Colony was names Maryland after queen. Lord Baltimore was catholic and hoped his colony would be a refuge for catholic people. Maryland became known for it's policy for respect of religious beliefs.

  • The Middle Colonies

    King Charles II gave territory of new England and Virginia (occupied by Dutch traders and land owners) to brother Duke of York. English renamed it New York instead of New Netherland. And most Dutch, Belgian, French, and Germans stayed there, this made New York the most Diverse colonies in the new world.

  • The New England Colonies

    Puritans who thought that Massachusetts was not enough religious formed Connecticut ( the two combined in 1665) . Puritans who thought that Massachusetts was too restrictive formed Rhode Island, where everyone was in complete liberty in religious concernments.

  • The Middle Colonies

    King granted some land west of Delaware river to William Penn (Pennsylvania), a quarter with lots of land in Ireland. It had fertile soil and religious toleration so people came from all over Europe.

  • The Southern Colonies

    Carolina colony stretched out from Virginia to Florida and west to the Pacific Ocean. Small farms were in the northern half and in the southern half there were large field that produced corn, beef, pork and other. In the 1690's they also started to produce rice. They split in 1712

  • The Southern Colonies

    In 1732 by the need to built a barrier between south Carolina and Spanish settlements in Florida, English man James Oglethorpe established the Georgia Colony.