SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
THE 13 COLONIES LIFE IN EARLY AMERICA
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Jamestown
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Roanoke
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Plymouth
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Florida
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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: -In late December, the Mayflower anchored at Plymouth Rock, where the pilgrims formed the first permanent settlement of Europeans in New England.
Detailed explanation-3: -They first anchored in Provincetown Harbor. The Pilgrims-or separatists, as they called themselves-were headed to the Colony of Virginia to begin their new settlement, but ended up in Provincetown when they encountered dangerous shoals trying to make it around Cape Cod.
Detailed explanation-4: -Traveling aboard the Susan Constant, Godspeed and Discovery, 104 men landed in Virginia in 1607 at a place they named Jamestown. This was the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Thirteen years later, 102 settlers aboard the Mayflower landed in Massachusetts at a place they named Plymouth.