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King James I allowed the Virginia Company to become a royal charter
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Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in the United States.
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Samuel de Champlain left France and headed towards the current day Quebec
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New Netherland was located on the northeast coast of North America
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About 20 African slaves were delivered to Jamestown, Virginia.
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On board of the Mayflower, the Mayflower Compact was signed. The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony.
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The Powhatan killed any English settlers they found
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Maryland was mainly founded for the poor people, as well as people who were in trouble with the government.
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Thomas Hooker founded the Connecticut Colony as a settlement for a Puritan congregation that was traveling with him.
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This set of orders set the structure of the government along the Connecticut River.
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This was an agreement for New Haven to be self-governed.
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The New England Confederation was a military alliance between New England colonies.
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Powhatan warriors and the Virginia colonists began fighting.
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Religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians was mandated
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New Amsterdam was attacked by Susquehannock Indians in an act of retaliation.
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Massachusetts tried to rule over the local Indians which started this war known as one of the bloodiest in US history.
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Families and communities were destroyed and it took decades to recover from this bloody war.
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The Pueblo people began an uproar with the Spanish colonizers.
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Nearly 400 Spanish people were killed by the Pueblo and the people that were left were drove out.
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The third largest English colony in America, but it was next to the last to be founded.
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Jacob Leisler took control of the south portions of colonial New York.
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A New York colony village named Schenectady was attacked.
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Leisier was arrested, which ended the rebellion.
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Hearings of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. These prosecutions lasted until May of 1693.