Sentences with phrase «make permanent settlements»

It gave them political influence as a large group of voters; it gave them access to applying for land to make permanent settlements.

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1621 — Early American settlers of Plimoth Plantation (1620 - 1692), the first permanent European settlement in southern New England, might have made pumpkin pies (of sorts) by making stewed pumpkins or by filling a hollowed out shell with milk, honey and spices, and then baking it in hot ashes.
Fort Orange was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland, built as a trading post by the West India Company in 1624 at the present - day location of Albany, making the city the oldest continuously occupied European settlement in the United States, north of Virginia.
He put forward a $ 20 billion plan, supplemented with money made from state court settlements, to build 100,000 units of permanent housing and 20,000 supportive housing units over the next decade and a half.
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