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This was America's first English colony in Virginia. It was named after their king. The water being on three sides of this site is why they chose it. This made it easy to defend against possible Spanish attacks. With the water being deep enough the English could tie their ships at the shoreline.
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Slavery in America started in 1619, when a Dutch ship brought 20 African slaves into Jamestown, Virginia. North America started to turn to African slaves as a cheaper, more plentiful source of labor throughout the 17th century.
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After more than two months at sea, the Pilgrims finally arrived at Cape Cod on November 11, 1620. A few weeks later, they sailed up the coast to Plymouth and started to build their town where a group of Wampanoag People had lived before.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony is one of the original English settlements in present-day Massachusetts, founded in 1628 and settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England.
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The House of Burgesses was the elected representative element of the Virginia General Assembly, the legislative body of the Colony of Virginia. With the creation of the House of Burgesses in 1642, the General Assembly, which had been established in 1619, became a bicameral institution.
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The Navigation Acts were a series of laws designed to restrict England’s carrying trade to English ships in the 17th and 18th centuries. They tried to put the theory of mercantilism into actual practice. The First Navigation Act was passed in 1651.
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Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers that took place from 1676 to 1677. It was led by Nathaniel Bacon against Colonial Governor William Berkeley after Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native American Indians out of Virginia.
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The Glorious Revolution permanently established Parliament as the ruling power of England and, later, the United Kingdom representing a shift from an absolute monarchy to a constitutional monarchy.
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King William's War was the North American theater of the Nine Years' War, also known as the War of the Grand Alliance or the War of the League of Augsburg.
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The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between early 1692 and mid-1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft the devil’s magic and 20 were executed.