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Virginia Company settlers landed on Jamestown Island to establish an English colony. -
He got the idea for his design after observing two children in his shop holding up two lenses that made a distant weather vane appear close. -
It was an assembly of elected representatives from Virginia that met together to form a type of government. -
20-30 African slaves were traded in exchange for supplies. -
The first framework of government was written and enacted in the territory that is now the United States of America. -
Was invented to test his theory that air has different weights at different heights. -
A series of catastrophic conflicts occurred in the middle of the 17th century between people loyal to King George and people who were loyal to the parliament. -
Declared that only English ships would be allowed to bring goods into England and that the North American colonies could only export their commodities, such as tobacco and sugar, to England. -
Native Americans' last-ditch effort to avoid recognizing English authority and stop English settlement on their native lands -
It was the first popular uprising in the American colonies.