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In December 1606 the Virginia Company sent 3 ships to America, with 104 male colonists on board. In May 1607 they reached Chesapeake Bay, the colonists chose to settle 40 miles inland along a river, near the Powhatan Confederacy.
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Plymouth was the 1st permanent English settlement in New England, it was established by the Plymouth Company. The passengers were mostly puritan separatists, they wanted religious freedom. In September 1620, 120 women, men, and children got onto the Mayflower. They were originally meant to go to the Virginia colony, because of violent storms they went off course towards Boston. They were out of jurisdiction so they decided to govern themselves, and they signed the Mayflower Compact.
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In 1636, settlers in Massachusetts accused a Pequot of murdering a colonist, as revenge they set fire to a Pequot village. As the Pequot's fled the colonists killed them. The Pequot chief gathered the survivors and counterattacked. During the war the colonists and their other native allies killed hundreds of Pequot's in the Connecticut Valley. The Pequot Nation was dissolved under the terms of the Treaty of Hartford (1638).
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The 1st 145 English colonists in South Carolina arrived at Charles Town, they brought 3 African slaves with them. Over the next 20 years, half of the colonists came from Barbados and other island colonies. The flatness of South Carolina was good for farming, so it attracted many planters from the Caribbean and they brought slaves with them too.
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Chief Metacomet (AKA King Philip) hated the English for converting them to Christianity. In 1674, John Sassamon, a Christian Indian, told colonists that the Wampanoags were preparing for war. Sasssamon was found dead and 3 Wampanoags were hanged. The natives were mad and burned Puritan farms. Things began escalating the natives would attack; the colonists would retaliate. It got so bad that the 1st conscription laws were passed. In the end the colonists were victorious, and had less casualties.
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Previous attacks led to the murder of Nathaniel Bacon's farm manager.The governor refused to attack the natives back, so Bacon organized a group to attack the natives. The governor declared Bacon a rebel, and challenged him to a duel. The colony got into a civil war. Bacon accused the governor of corruption and tried to arrest him. The governor resisted and Bacon's men burned Jamestown. Bacon passed before he could be executed and the king denounced the governor and ordered him back to England.
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Native American man named Pope organized the rebellion. It included warriors from 19 different villages. They burned catholic churches, tortured and killed priests and settlers, they destroyed all relics of Christianity, and forced the Spanish survivors to flee.
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Quakers suffered intense persecution, so William Penn founded a Quaker commonwealth, which was the colony of Pennsylvania. He encouraged people from all different backgrounds and social standings to live there in harmony. The relationship between the natives and the colonists was good, because of Penn's policy of buying land from the Native Americans. The colony was mostly peaceful.
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Isaac Newton announced his theory of the earth's gravitational pull. His theory challenged biblical notion's of the world's workings. He implied that natural laws, and not God, govern all things like orbits of the planets, effects of gravity, and politics, economics, and society.
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The south Carolina slave code defined all blacks, mulattoes, and natives sold into slavery as having become slaves for life, and their children too.