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Jamestown
English found Jamestown in Virginia -
Plymouth Company
100 people sent to established colony in Maine, but failed within a year -
London Company
started to move people to new world -
John Rolfe
planted sweeter Tobacco in Virginia -
First slaves arrive in Virginia
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The House of Burgesses
the first representative assembly in America, meets for the first time in Virginia. The first African slaves are brought to Jamestown. -
Puritans settle in Massachusetts
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Plymouth
Sep., 100 men and women set sail on Mayflower
Dec., landed at Plymouth Rock -
Indian attacks in Virginia
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New Hampshire
Founded by captain John Mason -
Dutch build New Amsterdam, and rename it New York
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Maryland
Settlers arrived and bough land from Native Americans -
Connecticut
Founded by Thomas Hooker -
Rhode Island
Founded by Roger Williams accomplished by Anne Hutchinson, both dissenters from Mass Bay colony -
Harvard University founded
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The first book established in the U.S.
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Mass Bay colony
Body of Liabilities, contain 100 liabilities, considered to be precursor to general laws of Mass and State Constitution -
Law and Liberty of Mass,
Basis of civil and criminal law until 18th century, Reflect Puritan concerns -
Navigation Act of 1651
about English ships -
Navigation Act of 1660
resources from new world has to go England or English colony -
Staple Act 1660
anything coming to new world has to go England -
Period: to
New Netherlands (NY and NJ)
NY become royal colony
1665: New Jersey established -
Carolina (South and North)
founded in 1663 -
Treaty of Albany
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John Locke
The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina -
Plantation duty Act 1673
tax on goods from one colony to another -
Bacon Rebellion
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Pennsylvania
Founded by William Penn -
charter of Liabilities and Privileges becomes Royal Colony
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8000 Quakers in Pennsylvania
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Creation of Dominion of New England
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Glorious Revolution in England
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Navigation Act of 1696
goes to the Court, and Judges were from England -
250,000 settlers in English colonies
