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The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery, carrying Englishmen, sailed forty miles up the James River in present-day Virginia, in which they settled.
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Jamestown is the first English colony to be established. Due to the lack of fertile ground and the colonists opposing to work, the colony lost 80 percent of those who had originally arrived by 1616.
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Santa Fe was the first permanent European settlement in the Southwest.
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John Rolfe discovered tobacco from Trinidad and Guiana and planted Virginia’s first tobacco crop -
Puritans advocated for a simpler worship service, the abolition of ornate churches, and other reforms, which were not accepted by King Charles I. Therefore, the Puritans escaped persecution by traveling to New England.
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New Haven Colony, a Puritan-based colony, is established and Theophilus Eaton is named governor.
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The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, co-authored by the philosopher John Locke, explicitly legalized slavery from the very beginning.
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King Philip's War (Metacom) brought a decisive end to Native American power in New England.
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The rebellion started with a debt not being paid and pigs were taken for compensation; However, this spiraled out of control into a war between Susquehannock and the colonists, led by Nathaniel Bacon.
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In 1688, members of the Society of Friends in Germantown, outside Philadelphia, signed a petition protesting the institution of slavery among fellow Quakers.
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Parliament’s passage of a Bill of Rights, which curtailed the power of the monarchy and cemented Protestantism in England.
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Colonial Massachusetts became the first place in the Western world to issue paper bills to be used as money.
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Beginning in early 1692 and culminating in 1693, Salem Town, Salem Village, Ipswich, and Andover all tried women and men as witches. -
The Spanish king issued the Decree of Sanctuary, which granted freedom to enslaved people fleeing the English colonies if they converted to Catholicism and swore an oath of loyalty to Spain.
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