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AAt Jamestown in Virginia
BAt Plymouth in New England
CAt Albany in New York
DAt Charleston in Carolina
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. At Jamestown in Virginia
1. English emigration to North America began as a trickle of a few hundred colonists in the early 1600s.
2. Their first permanent settlement was a trading post founded in 1607.
3. It stood at Jamestown, in the Old Dominion of Virginia.
4. Plymouth was founded thirteen years later, in 1620, by a different group.
_Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section THE COLONIAL PERIOD_
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