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1600-1700

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    1600-1700

  • Jamestown is founded

  • First tobacco crop is planted

  • First African slaves arrive in the colonies

  • The House of Burgesses meets for the first time.

  • Plymouth Colony is established

  • The Mayflower Compact is signed

  • Massachusetts Bay is founded

  • Giovanni Branca invents the steam turbine

  • The First Navigation Act is passed

  • New Amsterdam becomes New York

  • Bacons Rebellion

  • The Glorious Revolution

  • King William's War

  • Salem Witch Trials