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Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in the modern-day United States.
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Henry Hudson set out to find the Northwest Passage. He failed, but along the way he found the Hudson River and modern-day New York
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The first permanent European settlement in the Southwest was established.
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Pocahontas married John Rolfe and there was peace between the Powhatan and the colony.
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Puritans sought out to purify the Church of England. Separatists of this group headed to the New World. They established Plymouth Colony and the Mayflower Compact
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Opechancanough promised to drive the colonists out of their land and planned a surprise attack on the colonists. This killed over 350 colonists, that is one third of the amount of colonists in Virginia.
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the Puritans.
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The idea of slavery is legalized in Connecticut and spreads throughout the rest of the America's.
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The British came and peacefully to New Netherlands, which is around modern day New York, out of Dutch control.
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Nathaniel Bacon and others rivaled against Governor Berkeley.
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William Penn signed a treaty with Indians and buys land from them, this is modern-day Pennsylvania.
