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Port Royal is established by the French in Nova Scotia
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Jamestown was founded on May 13th, 1607. However, the colonist ships arrived in late April and explored the area before settling
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Under the leadership of Samuel De Champlain, Quebec is founded in New France, or today's Canada
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The first permanent European Settlement in the Southwest
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Indian marries a colonist, which created a short time of peace and cooperation between the local tribe and the colonists
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John Rolfe crossed strains from Trinidad and Guiana and planted it inJamestown
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Virginia created the House of Burgesses as a representative body of the colony
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The successor of Powhatan pledges to drive the colonists back to the sea, and kills over 350 colonists
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Peter Minuit buys Manhattan from the Munsee Indians
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Was settled buy Puritans
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Founded by Thomas Hooker
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Founded and settled by Roger Williams
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The war was between the English and the Pequot tribe, which began because 2 Englishmen on expedition were killed
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Virgina declared that offspring of slaves would also be slaves for life
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Conflict between the English and Metacom, led to more violence following the Pequot war and was a last effort to push the colonists back to the ocean
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After a debt collection by indians turned into violent confrontations and battles with multiple tribes, Bacon caused a rebellion pitting everyone against eachother in a fight to defend their families.
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Massachusetts becomes the first colony in the west to print and issue paper money
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Paranoia about the supernatural resulted in trials accusing men and women of being witches and resulted in 14 women and 6 men being executed
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Spain decreed that any slave who escaped the British colonies and made it to theirs, and would convert to Catholicism would be free