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France Establishes Quebec
Quebec became a fur trading enterprise. The French would befriend the Native Americans to learn where the good hunting grounds were to get fur for trading. The settlement of Quebec, however, set devastating Indian Wars into motion. These conflicts reduced Iroquois population. French priests sought converts. -
Spain Establishes Sante Fe
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House of Burgesses - First Representative Assembly
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First African Slaves Arrive
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100 Men and Women Set Sail on the Mayflower
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Mayflower Lands at Plymouth Rock
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Mayflower Compact is Created and Signed
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Organizing of the First Permanent Dutch Settlement
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Dutch Establish Fur Trading Post at Fort Orange
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House of Burgesses Makes Anglican Church Established Church of Virginia
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Boston is Founded
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Settlers Arrive in Maryland
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Anne Hutchinson Follows John Cotton to Massachusetts
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Thomas Hooker Establishes Hartford
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Exeter, New Hampshire is Founded
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Thomas Hooker Forms a Colony - Connecticut
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Body of Liberties
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Peter Stuyvesant Finds New Amsterdam in Disarray
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Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts
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Navigation Act of 1651
Aimed at the Dutch - must ship goods on English ships. -
Navigation Act of 1660
Certain resources from North America go to England -
Virginia Recognized Slavery
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Halfway Covenant - Massachusetts
Extended partial church membership to church members' children who had not yet experienced conversion. -
Staple Act of 1663
Everything (goods) going to the New World has to go through England. -
Carolina is Granted 8 Proprietors
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King Granted New Netherlands to His Brother - Duke of York
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Ceded New Jersey to Sir George Carteret and Lord Berkley
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Maryland First Slave Legislature
"All Negroes or other slaves hereafter imported into province shall serve for life as should their children." -
Baptism Does Not Change Status of Slaves
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John Locke's Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
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Plantation Duty Act of 1673
Tax on goods shipped from one colony to another. -
Bacon's Rebellion
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King Charles II Separates New Hampshire
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Penn Used a King's Debt to His Father to Receive a Patent for a Quaker Refuge in the New World
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LaSalle Claims the Mississippi River for France
This river was the key to trading. -
8,000 Quakers in Pennsylvania
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Virginia Banned Interracial Marriages
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Massachusetts Not a Royal Colony
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Virginia Slaves Accused of Committing a Capital Crime are Prohibited from Asserting Right to Trial by Jury of Right to Appeal a Conviction
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Salem Witch Trials
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Navigation Act of 1696
Court to enforce Navigation Act of 1651, Navigation Act of 1660, Staple Act of 1663, and Plantation Duty Act of 1673.
