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Settlers who arrived in America established Jamestown in Virginia.
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The first African slaves were brought to Jamestown.
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The House of Burgesses first representative assembly in America meets in Virginia
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Pilgrims come to the new world on the Mayflower and establish the colony Plymouth
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The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the Massachusetts Bay Company.
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William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania trying to make an openly religious colony.
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Supporters of the puritan faith settled in current-day New York
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The Navigation Act was passed by the British Parliament
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Virginia passed a law that said children born to slaves inherited their mother's condition.
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Nathaniel Bacon started a rebellion attacking Native Americans for supposedly trying to destroy English America