SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
FOUNDING OF THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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1585
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1492
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1620
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Detailed explanation-1: -Mayflower arrived in Plymouth Harbor on December 16, 1620 and the colonists began building their town.
Detailed explanation-2: -Signed on November 11, 1620, the Mayflower Compact was the first document to establish self-government in the New World.
Detailed explanation-3: -In September 1620, during the reign of King James I, a group of around 100 English men and women-many of them members of the English Separatist Church later known to history as the Pilgrims-set sail for the New World aboard the Mayflower.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Mayflower set sail from Southampton, England, for North America on August 15, 1620. The ship carried Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, in modern-day Massachusetts, where they established the first permanent European settlement in 1620.
Detailed explanation-5: -Plymouth Colony was founded by a group of English Puritans who came to be known as the Pilgrims. The core group (roughly 40% of the adults and 56% of the family groupings) were part of a congregation led by William Bradford.