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Jamestown was established by The Virginia Company of England.
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Henry Hudson found the Hudson River and claimed New York for the Dutch.
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The “starving winter” killing many English immigrants.
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The first Southwestern European settlement was established in Santa Fe.
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John Rolfe planted tobacco in Jamestown.
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Virginia imported its first slaves.
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The House of Burgesses was established in Jamestown.
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Pilgrims founded Plymouth Colony.
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New Hampshire was founded by John Mason.
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Puritans founded Massachusetts Bay.
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Thomas Hooker and other Puritans founded Connecticut.
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Roger Williams founded Rhode Island.
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The Pequot War ended the power of the Dutch and Natives in New England.
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Civil War erupted in England.
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Parliament issued an embargo on the rebellious colonies who sided with the Crown.
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Puritans from Virginia revolted and banned practicing Catholicism and Anglicanism until William Stone was able to suppress their revolution in 1658.
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The Civil War ended in a victory for Parliament and Charles I was executed as power over the republic was given to Oliver Cromwell. Some of the American colonies began to sympathize with the Crown which angered Parliament.
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Parliament passed the Navigation Act of 1651 which forced all trade between the colonies and England to be in colonial or English ships.
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New Jersey was founded when the Duke of York gave George Carteret a charter for the land.
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New Englanders fought the native indigenous population in King Phillip’s War and put an end to Native American power in the area.
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Nathaniel Bacon’s group of white and black slaves and indentured servants rebelled against the unfair colonial laws in Virginia involving taxation, representation in government, voting rights, etc.
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William Penn founded Pennsylvania where many Quakers settled and traded with Natives.
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The Glorious Revolution overthrew James II’s Catholic regime and allowed the Protestants Mary II and Williams III to rise to power.
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The Salem Witch Trials began in Massachusetts.