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A London company landed at present day Virginia to establish the first colony in the New World.
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John Smith, the colony's first president, was wounded by gunpowder explosion and sent back to England and never heard of again.
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John Rolfe, married Pochaontas, planted sweeter tobacco in Virginia and became a cash crop.
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Women arrive to the colony from England. The Dutch bring the first African american (indentured servants). Also, the House of Burgess is established and declares white, male landowners could only participate.
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William Bradford and Pilgrims, after a three-month voyage on the Mayflower, land on Plymouth Rock and sign the Mayflower Compact.
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Native Americans attack Jamestown and massacre 347 colonists (women and children).
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King James revokes its charter, becomes a royal colony.
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John Winthrop and Puritans colonize Mass Bay.
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Sir George Calvert founded Maryland as a refuge for Roman Catholics.
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Anne Hutchinson followed John Cotton to Massachusetts and held biweekly devotional meetings.
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Thomas Hookers' establishes Hartford, Connecticut.
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Roger Williams, banished from Mass Bay, founds Providence, based on the priciples of religious freedom.
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Roger Williams combines Providence and Portsmouth into RI.
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Aimed at the Dutch. It force all goods to be shipped on English ships.
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Virginia recognizes slavery
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Charters granted to 8 noblemen to found Carolinas.
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Called for goods shipped to the new world stop in England.
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King granted his brother Duke of York.
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A tax on goods shipped from one country to another.
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Nathaniel Bacon organized a militia to attack Native Americans.
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The bloodiest war between Native Americans vs. English. Reasons for war were, land, rescources, and inslavement.
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William Penn used the King's debt to his father to receive a patent for a quaker refuge in the New World.
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A bloodless overthrow of King James II
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A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in Massachusetts.
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Enforces all previous acts.