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Colonists arrived in America and establish Jamestown in Virginia. It was the first British colony.
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This was the first representative assembly in America. It met in Virginia.
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The first slaves were brought to Jamestown by the Dutch.
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Pilgrims come to the New World on the Mayflower and settle in the colony called Plymouth.
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This colony was founded by the Massachusetts Bay Company. It was a charter colony.
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William Penn founded the Pennsylvania colony with the intent of making an openly free and religious colony.
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Puritans settled in modern-day New York.
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The British Parliament passed the Navigation Act, which was intended to help England stop relying on foreign imported goods. It restricted colonial trade.
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This law passed by Virginia stated that children born from slaves inherited their mother's state.
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A man named Nathaniel Bacon started a rebellion with the purpose of attacking Native Americans for "trying to destroy England and America."