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Joint-Stock Company, sent 100 men to establish colony in Maine, failed within a year, made no efforts to found a permanent colony.
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Traders established Port Royal in Acadia (Nova Scotia) in 1603 and launched trading expeditions that stretched down the Atlantic coast as far as Cape Cod. The needs of the fur trade set the future pattern of French colonization. Founded in 1608 under the leadership of Samuel de Champlain, Quebec provided the foothold for what would become New France.
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Sharing the European hunger for access to Asia, in 1609 the Dutch commissioned the Englishman Henry Hudson to discover the fabled Northwest Passage through North America. He failed, of course, but nevertheless found the Hudson River and claimed modern-day New York for the Dutch. There they established New Netherland, an essential part of the Dutch New World empire.
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Ruling by divine right
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Santa Fe, the first permanent European settlement in the Southwest, was established in 1610. Few Spaniards relocated to the Southwest because of the distance from Mexico City and the dry and hostile environment. Thus, the Spanish never achieved a commanding presence in the region. By 1680, only about three thousand colonists called Spanish New Mexico home.
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Did away with Parliament
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John Rolfe planted sweeter tobacco in Virginia, became cash crop
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Women arrived at Americas
First Africans arrived
Examples of Laws passed -
Native Americans' conflicts and the first African slaves arriving in Americas
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100 Men and Women set sail on Mayflower, landed at Plymouth Rock
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the first permanent Dutch settlement gets organized
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Settlers arrived in 1634, bought land from Native Americans.
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formed colony of Connecticut
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Profit started flowing to Amsterdam from colonies
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Body of Liberties, contain 100 liberties
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Puritan Revolution period
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New Amsterdam in disarray, grew and became quite successful.
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Religious freedom
Fairly low property requirements for voting
120 detailed paragraphs
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Monmouth's Rebellion
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Glorious Revolution
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Overthrow King James II
Abolished absolutism
Establish constitutional monarchy
English of Bill of Rights