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Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America established by the London Company in Virginia.
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The first representative assembly in the new America, The House Of Burgesses is founded. The first meeting is conducted.
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In need of law, order and a civil society, the adult male passengers of the Mayflower sign the Mayflower Compact. The Compact created laws for the incoming Pilgrims for their new colony.
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Pilgrims from England established the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
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The English took over and claimed the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam and renamed it New York.
