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The first English permanent settlement in America is established in Virginia. About 103 settlers. John Smith Captain.
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Pocahontas, who saved John Smith from death, marries John Rolfe and in doing so helped maintain peace between Indians and settlers for eight years.
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A smallpox epidemic wipes out about 90% of the Native Americans living in the Massachusetts Bay area.
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The House of Burgesses is the first representative assembly and it is held in Jamestown.
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Just a month after the representative assembly (House of Burgesses) meets, the first slaves from Africa arrive in Jamestown.
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Puritans begin establishing Plymouth settlement and form the Mayflower compact in order to have government and legal structure.
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The First Thanksgiving between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe took place because the tribe had aided the Pilgrims in settleing and plating in their new land.
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After being banished from the Massachusetts Bay colony, Roger Williams founded Providence, Rhode Island.
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A war between the Mass., Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies against the Pequot tribe broke out and ended with the Treaty of Hartford, despite the fact that all but 200 of the Pequot tribe remained.
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This document is drafted allowing initiatives in legislation and public referendums while keeping values of separating church and state.
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Begins in Connecticut but recognized in all the colonies.
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King Philip's war begins in New England. Indian forces attack colonial settlements. Although the Indians were successful for the first year, this ended when their alliances fell apart afterwards.
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This colony is established by William Penn when he signs a treat with Delaware Indians and pays for the lands.
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Statehouse is burned in 1698 and the colonial government moves to Middle Plantation, now known as Williamsburg.