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The English established the first settlement in the New World, Jamestown.
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Often seen as the beginning of slavery, even though African American slaves had been imported into the United States since the 1500s
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It was the first legislative body in colonial America.
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Settled by the Pilgrims
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The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
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The Indian Massacre of 1622, more often known as the Jamestown massacre, was an attack on the Virginia Colony led by the Powhatan Confederacy.
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Colony, one of the original English settlements in present-day Massachusetts, settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees.
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Maryland was founded as a safe haven for English Catholics fleeing persecution in Europe.