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New Amsterdam is settled on the island now known as Manhattan

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New Amsterdam is settled on the island now known as Manhattan

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A small group of settlements are formed along the seacoast and the Piscataqua River.

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A small group of settlements are formed along the seacoast and the Piscataqua River.

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The second permanent settlement is founded.

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The second permanent settlement is founded.

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Founding of the Virginia Colony in Jamestown

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Founding of the Virginia Colony in Jamestown

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English colonists, under the direction of Sir Walter Raleigh, settle on Roanoke Island in an attempt to create the first English foothold in the new world. They struggle to survive. No one knows the fate of these original colonists, and the Roanoke colony did not endure.

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First permanent English colony is settled in the new world by John Smith. Their goals were “to create wealth” and to bring religion to the natives. They struggled to survive, due to Indian attacks, starvation, and lack of skills by the settlers.

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A group of English religious separatists, the Puritans, comes to the new world from Plymouth, England.

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Massachusetts Bay Colony is created. It is governed by a small group of Puritan leaders, who hold a strict religious ethic and are intolerant of other religious views. They created a governing policy of majority rule that was known as the Mayflower Compact.

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Captain John Mason of Hampshire, England, sends settlers to the new world to form a colony based on fishing and trade. It was eventually known as the New Hampshire Colony.

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Peter Stuyvesant arrives from the Netherlands. Creates a settlement around the fur trade operations taking place in the North River, now called the Hudson.

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First colony is created. It is now known as “the Lost Colony” 

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First colony is created. It is now known as “the Lost Colony” 