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104 English men and boys arrived in North America on three ships and settled in Jamestown Virginia, naming the colony after their King, James I. -
Roughly 20-30 slaves were brought from Africa to Point Comfort, Virginia and either sold there or sold in Jamestown. -
The Mayflower ship carried families of pilgrims from England to Cape Cod, Massachusetts to establish the first permanent New England colony. -
After reaching Berkeley Hundred, 38 British settlers proclaimed that it would be a day of thanksgiving to God. -
Powhatan warriors attacked the settlements in the Virginia Colony because of the abuse and inconsideration given by the colonists. The only colony that had time to prepare was Jamestown. -
Puritans wanted to have a self-governing and reliant society that would aid in supporting God's wishes. It was first governed by John Winthrop who originally led the colonists to that settlement. -
Before the arrival, local merchants were able to trade in to receive slaves from the Caribbean or the Chesapeake until a Dutch ship arrived with roughly 300 enslaved people, dramatically increasing the purchase of slaves in the settlement. -
English laws declared that only English ships could bring goods to England. If American colonies wanted to export goods to England, they could only send out their commodities such as sugar and tobacco -
An armed rebellion, led by Nathanial Bacon that occurred in the colony of Virginia after Colonial Governor William Berkeley refused to remove Native Americans from Virginia which upset Bacon. -
A series of trials and prosecutions that took place in Salem, Massachusetts after two young girls began to have violent fits, leading the local doctor to believe they had been bewitched. After other girls experienced the same symptoms and accused three women of bewitching them, chaos erupted through the entire community and many other names were being exposed for being in connection to witchcraft.