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Mestizos: make up a large part of Colonial population
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Traders establish Port Royal in Acadia (Nova Scotia) and launch trading expeditions that stretched down the Atlantic coast as far as Cape Cod
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Jamestown: founded by the London Company, the first permanent English settlement
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Santa Fe: first permanent European settlement in the Southwest
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The House meets for the first time in Virginia
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Plymouth Colony: established by Pilgrims from England
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New Amsterdam's first African marriage
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New Amsterdam: seized by the English from the Dutch and is renamed "New York"
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France criminalizes Protestantism