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Jamestown is founded
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A third set of colonies formed in the South after Jamestown, Virginia was founded as a joint stock colony .
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English Colonists in Virginia destroy the French settlements at Port Royal, Nova Scotia.
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Shortly after the house of Burgesses was formed a group of colonists from England known as the pilgrims arrived in america.
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The mayflower compact was signed
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The Massachusetts body of liberties was adopted in 1641
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The Navigation Acts were a series of laws passsed it put the idea of mercantilism into practice
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The Pennsylvania Frame of Government was passed.
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Parliament removed King james from the throne and invited his daughter Mary and her husband William to rule instead.
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Parliament drew up the English Bill of Rights.
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House of Burgesses meets for the first time
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Pennsylvania Charter of Privelages, established part of the basis for the U.S.constitution and the Bill of Rights.
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All thirteen English colonies had been established each with its own constitution
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An English traveler in America, Andrew Burnaby, wrote that the colonies were as different from one another as "fire and water".
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two battles between British and colonial soldiers took place in Massachusetts at Lexington and Concord
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New Hampshire became the first colony to organize as a state and craft a detailed written plan for government, or constitution.
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The second continental congress apposed the declaration of independence.
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Each colony had its own representative government one that had been operating for more than 100 years
