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The Nina, The pinta, and the santa maria his voyage was sponsored by spain.
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Many tribes live in PA
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this is the time when Jamestown was settled.
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This is the time when he explored the delaware Bay area
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Pilgrams settled in Plymouth (Massachusetts)
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He came to New Netherland, New Sweden is founded.Peter Minuit (1580-1638) was director general of the New Netherland colony in America and founder of New Amsterdam. He later became first governor of New Sweden.
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The dutch take over Sweden.
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England takes over the colony (New York) The english took control of new netherlan in 1664 and renamed it New york.
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He is granted the Charter for PennsylvaniaPenn was born in 1644, at Tower Hill, London, the son of Admiral Sir William Penn and Margaret Jasper, previously widowed of a captain, and the daughter of a Rotterdam merchant. William Penn, served in the Commonwealth Navy during the English Civil War and was rewarded by Oliver Cromwell with estates in Ireland.
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This is the year that Pennsylvania was founded, William Penn meets with the Delaware Indians. Pennsylvania's official flag was adopted in 1907. The flag has a deep blue background. In the center are two harnessed draft horses surrounding a shield picturing a ship, a plow, and 3 sheaves of wheat. Above is a bald eagle. Below are a stalk of corn, an olive branch, and a draped red ribbon that reads,"VIRTUE, LIBERTY, AND INDEPENDENCE."
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This is the year william Penn died, He died of a Stroke.
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In this time Ben franklin arrived in Philadelphia
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The Walking Purchase (or Walking Treaty) was a purported 1737 agreement between the Penn family, the proprietors of Pennsylvania, and the Lenape (also known as the Delaware).
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In the early part of the eighteenth century, the trans-Appalachian region of North America remained much as it had been for the after centuries. Some trappers and backwoodsmen—Frenchmen from Canada and Englishmen from the British colonies—traveled through its woods and rivers, but the principal occupants of the region were Native Americans and a great diversity of wildlife.
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Pontiac's rebellion (1763-6), misnomer for an uprising by American Indian tribes of the eastern Great Lakes region. Pontiac was an Ottawa chief, but the Delaware, Shawnee, and Seneca were more significant. During the French and Indian war they wrung land recessions from the English in treaties which neither side intended to respect, underlined when Amherst discontinued buying peace with gifts in 1760.
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This is the year the stamp act was passed.
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in This is the Year the townsend act was passed
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Ahthracite Coal is first used in homes on this date.
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The boston tea party was on this date and it is a Rebellion
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The Intolerable acts were passed on this date, The Intolerable Acts were laws that were really punishments that King George III put on the colonies. He did this to the Colonists because he wanted to punish them for dumping tea into the harbor at the Boston Tea Party.
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Drafted by Thomas Jefferson between June 11 and June 28, 1776, the Declaration of Independence is at once the nation's most cherished symbol of liberty and Jefferson's most enduring monument.
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Washington occupies Valley Forge.No battle was fought at Valley Forge. But it was the turning point in the Revolutionary War. It was here that the Continental army was desperately against the ropes bloody, beaten, battle weary and ready to quit.
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On this date The Articles of Confederation was adopted by the states.
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On this date the U.S. Constitution is adopted.The Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the United States. The Constitution is the framework for the organization of the United States government and for the relationship of the federal government with the states, citizens, and all people within the United States.
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The First President(George Washington is elected!
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This year Cornplanters Grant was Complete
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The privately built Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike Road was the first important turnpike and the first long-distance broken-stone and gravel surface built in America according to formal plans and specifications. The road's construction marked the beginning of organized road improvement after the long period of economic confusion following the American Revolution.
