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The Dutch government grants the Dutch East India Company the right to pursue trade in Asia.
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Virginia Company is founded with the hope of finding gold, silver, and other riches in the New World.
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James 1 sends three ships to Virginia to establish the first permanent English settlement in the New World, Jamestown.
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Samuel De Champlain, a French colonist, cartographer, and navigator discovers and founds Quebec.
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The Dutch commission the Englishman Henry Hudson to discover the fabled Northwest Passage through North America. He established the Hudson River and claimed New York for the Dutch.
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Pocahontas marries John Rolfe which eases tensions with the Powhatan and the English immigrants.
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Tobacco is booming and the Virginia colony sends their first cargo of the noxious drug to England, spreading business to foreign countries.
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African slaves are needed for sugar harvest because they are being killed at such a quick rate.
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The Netherlands chartered the Dutch West India Company in 1621 and established colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and North America.
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Puritans migrated to New England to escape persecution in England.
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Thirty years war finally concludes in Europe because the countries are exhausted. Germany has lost a third of its population and France and Spain are in despair. They realize that there needs to be tolerance for Catholics.
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This is the beginning of eight major battles between the Dutch Republic and England because of commercial competition. Peace was signed in 1654
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At this point, New Amsterdam holds the largest urban slave population on the continent.
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The English seize New Amsterdam and rename it New York
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Dutch scientist Anton Van Leeuwenhoek discovers microscopic organisms through the invention of his homemade microscope.
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Colonists had an unrelenting desire to gain more land and to do that, they took out local Indians, communities, and families in the process.
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After the overthrow of James 2nd Parliament rises and creates the Bill of Rights and the Toleration Acts.