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Where was the first permanent English settlement in America founded in 1607?
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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