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This was the first permanent settlement in the New World.
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Chief Opchanacanough and the Powhatan Confederacy tried to get rid the settlers.
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John Winthrop along with other colonists decide to leave Massachusetts bay colony and create a town.
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Two years after Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay colony he founded the first settlement that believed in separation of church and state.
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes its first set of laws in the Body of Liberties.
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Maryland passes the Maryland Toleration Act which allowed freedom of religion.
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The war between the Indians and the colonists ends.
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Nathaniel Bacon leads the rebellion of planters against Governor Berkeley.
