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The first permanent English settlement in the Americas. Founded in the colony of Virginia
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Colony of the Dutch Republic
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19 Africans arrived in Jamestown, Virginia
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First governing document of the Plymouth Colony
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Foundation of what is now known as New York City
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Second attempt by the Massachusetts Bay Company at colonization
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11 Ships carrying between 700 and 1000 Puritans plus livestock during the first period of the great migration.
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English later turned British colony
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Founded by Thomas Hooker then later became the state of Connecticut
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Private Ivy league University located in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Small English colony in what is now known as Connecticut
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Swedish colony along the lower reaches of the Delaware River in North America
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Orders describing the government set up by the Connecticut River Towns, setting its structure and powers.
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Original constitution of the New Haven colony
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The French and Iriquois wars escalated to full warfare due to the Iriquois wanting to expand their territory.
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Military alliance between New England colonies of Plymouth, Connecticut, New Haven, and Massachusetts Bay.
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Conflict between settlers of the nascent colony of New Netherland and the native Lenape population in what would later become the New York metropolitan area of the United States.
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Three wars fought between English settlers of the Virginia Colony, and Algonquin of the Powhatan Confederacy
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Jolliet and Jesuit Father Jacques Marquette, a Catholic priest and missionary, were the first non-Natives to explore and map the Mississippi River in 1673.
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King remembered in history as the King whose obstinacy led to his execution and brought down the Monarchy, which turned England briefly into a republic.
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Act Concerning Religion, was a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians passed by the assembly of the Maryland colony, in St. Mary's City.
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Large-scale attack by the Susquehannock Nation and allied Native Americans on several New Netherland settlements along the Hudson River (then called the North River), centered on New Amsterdam and Pavonia
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The Esopus Wars were two localized conflicts between the indigenous Esopus tribe of Lenape Indians and colonialist New Netherlanders
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King Charles II was king of England, Scotland and Ireland.
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King Charles II granted the charter for this new colony
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Captured by the English at the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War
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Appalachian mountains explored by John Lederer
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Charleston located in present day South Carolina
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Thomas Batts, Thomas Wood, and Robert Fallam set out from Petersburg, Virginia, with Indian guides to explore beyond the mountains.
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This was done through the Treaty of Westminster
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armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part.
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This war resulted in the destruction of Westo
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An uprising of most of the indigenous Pueblo people against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México
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Founded by William Penn
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James II succeeds to throne, reducing colonial autonomy
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An administrative union of English colonies covering New England and the Mid-Atlantic Colonies
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An uprising in late 17th century colonial New York in which German American merchant and militia captain Jacob Leisler seized control of the colony's south and ruled it from 1689 to 1691.
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Canadians and allied Mohawk and Algonquin warriors attacked the unguarded community, destroying most of the homes, and killing or capturing most of its inhabitants.
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The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused, nineteen of whom were found guilty and executed by hanging. One other man, Giles Corey, was pressed to death for refusing to plead, and at least five people died in jail. It was the deadliest witch hunt in the history of the United States.
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Accomplished with the Treaty of Ryswick