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Jamestown was the first successful British colony in the new world although it had issues of disease and famine only under the leadership of one John Smith and the aid of the natives Americans did the colony survive. -
The first African slaves arrived in North America on a Dutch ship in Jamestown. -
The first representative government gathered in Virginia as the House of Burgesses. -
the Mayflower brought the pilgrims to the Massachusetts bay colony to escape religious persecution in England. -
the Massachusetts bay colony was founded as one of the first British colonies. -
The English seize New Amsterdam from the Dutch and it becomes New York. -
This war was a final attempt by the natives to push the English back although it was ultimately unsuccessful.