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It went from sixty thousand in 1600 and plummeted to seven thousand remaining
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Formed by traders
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Before England had established a settlement in the New World
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Named after the virgin queen, Queen Elizabeth 1st
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Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery
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Samuel de Champlain established Quebec in Canada
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Hudson failed to find the Northwest Passage, but succeeded in finding the Hudson River and claimed New York for the Dutch.
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Supplies were lost at sea that were supposed to arrive for the settlers in Virginia
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All but 60 English settlers survive through the Starving times
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Eased relations between English and Powhattan tribe.
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Rolfe crossed strains of tobacco and made the tobacco that would make Virginia so profitable
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Any person who migrated to Virginia would automatically receive fifty acres of land and any immigrant whose passage they paid would entitle them to fifty acres more.
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Limited representative body composed of white landowners that first met in Jamestown.
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Founded by the Pilgrims
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Established colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and North America.
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(Powhatan's brother vowed to send the colonists back to sea). He killed over 350 colonists
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New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island
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20,000 people traveled to New England
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Charles I set a tract of about 12 million acres of land at the northern tip of the Chesapeake Bay aside for a second colony in America
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Hooker led one hundred people and a variety of livestock in settling an area they called Newtown (later Hartford).
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An armed contingent of English Puritans from Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Connecticut colonies trekked into Native American territory that was claimed by New England. Referring to themselves as the “Sword of the Lord,” this military force intended to attack the Pequots. They burned everything down and few escaped.
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Dutch extended religious tolerance to those who settled in New Netherland, the population remained small. This left the colony vulnerable to English attack during the 1650s and 1660s, resulting in the handover of New Netherland to England in 1664.
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The Mohegan tribe joined the Wampanoag war against the Puritans in King Philip's War.
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A slave rebellion in New York results in the death of six people and the execution of 12 slaves.
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Small Pox is bought to Cape Town and spreads like wildfire
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Parliaments first direct tax on the American colonies
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First bloodshed of the American Revolution; 5 colonists were killed
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Settlers stopped the English ships from unloading their cargo because of unfair taxation. So they disposed of the tea and dumbed it into the water
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56 Delegate joined in on the first Continental Congress meeting except for Georgia
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America began the fight against England for their own rights
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Written by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston. Written to show their independence from Britain, it has now become a national symbol
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The state of Pennsylvania passes a law that all children born to slaves will be freed
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Rhode Island becomes the 13th and they ratify the US Constitution.
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Treaty of Paris was signed and the United States became an independent country.
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In secret treaty with Spain, the treaty of San Ildefonso, France regains Louisiana.
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The very first issued paper money is created in the United States
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Women are allowed to vote in the state of Wyoming
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Utah allows women to vote in their territory
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Alexander Grahm Bell invents the telephone.