The first permanent English colony was established in the early seventeenth century at
A)Roanoke
B)Massachussetts Bay
C)Plymouth Rock
D)Chesapeake Bay
E)Jamestown

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Jamestown was founded in 1607 in what is now Virginia by the Virginia Company. It was the first permanent English settlement in North America. Roanoke was an earlier attempt at a colony in the late sixteenth century, but it ultimately failed. Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth Rock colonies were founded later in the seventeenth century. Chesapeake Bay is a region of Virginia and Maryland where many early English colonies were located, but it is not a specific colony.

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