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Establish Port Royal in Acadia (present day Nova Scotia). Fur trade became the pattern of French colonization
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Virginia Company established Jamestown as the first lasting British settlement in the New World
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Henry Hudson discovered the Hudson River in an attempt to find the fabled "Northwest Passage." Manhattan became launch point for future settlement and for attacking Spanish trade.
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John Rolfe planted the first tobacco strains. Tobacco boomed and within 15 years American colonists were exporting over five hundred thousand pounds of tobacco per year. Tobacco saved Virginia from ruin.
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twenty Africans sold by the Dutch to the Virginia colonists
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The Pilgrims, immigrants of both English and Dutch origin, landed and founded Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
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An estimated twenty thousand people, mostly Puritans escaping growing persecution from Church of England, emigrated from Britton to New England. It became known as the "Great Migration."
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War between Piquot tribe and New England settlers in Massachusetts Bay. Colonists sold hundreds of Native Americans into slavery in the West Indies
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Dutch colonists in New Netherlands pushed back against Algonquian tribes in New York and New Jersey
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Charles the First loses civil war to Parliament, and is beheaded. Changed completely the political climate in Britton and its relationship to American colonies.
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Settlement quickly turns island into major slave market for the West Indies
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This British colony in Carolina was part of Charles II's scheme to strengthen English control over the Eastern Seaboard in defiance of Spanish claims to the area.
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This relatively peaceful coup gave the British crown to Dutch Prince William of Holland and his English bride, Mary. The colonies believed that this move would confirm the centrality of Protestantism and liberty in English life.