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English Settlers land in the New World and establish Jamestown as the first English colony in the New World
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The first African Slaves are transported to the New World via the Columbian Exchange
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony is founded by a group of around 1000 puritans from England
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Founded in 1638 by European colonists
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The Virginia Company declares bankruptcy after failure to return the profit of their investors
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The First Navigation Act stated that all goods being transported to the British Colonies had to be carried by an English vessel
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Stated that all colonial trade had to be conducted using colonial or English ships.
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King Phillip’s War was a last-ditch effort by the Native Americans to stop the colonists from taking their land from them
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A rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon against governor Sir William Berkeley, a wealthy English planter
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King Charles II grants William Penn the province of Pennsylvania to settle a debt