IN CONTEXT
North American colonization
1585 English settlers found Roanoke Island Colony in North Carolina, but within five years it is abandoned.
1607 The first permanent English settlement in North America is founded at Jamestown, Virginia.
1608 French settlers found Quebec in Canada.
1629 English settlers found the Massachusetts Bay Colony on North America’s east coast.
1681 English Quaker William Penn founds Pennsylvania to provide a refuge for fellow Quakers.
1732 English settlers found Georgia, the last of the 13 original colonies on the northeast coast.
In 1620, a group of English people who could not legally worship as they wished ...
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