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Jamestown became the first English settlement in the United States
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Hired by the Dutch to find a path to India. He did not find one. He founded New York.
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Discovers Lake Champlain and claims Vermont for France
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Rolfe brings sweet tobacco to the colony and it becomes Jamestown's major export.
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Kills 90% of Native Americans in Massachusetts Bay area
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The first representative assembly in America
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The first are brought to America from the Dutch
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The Puritans land at Plymouth Rock
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Founded 1620
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Continuous struggle between the Powhatan Indian confederacy and early English settlers
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Founded by Captain John Mason
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Built New Amsterdam and renamed it New York
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Manhattan Island bought for $24 from the Man-a-hat-a Indians for the Dutch
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Maryland is founded as a Catholic colony
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Founded by Thomas Hooker
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Roger Williams establishes RI after being banished from Massachusetts Bay
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Founded 1638
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General laws considered to be the precursor to the Massachusetts Constitution
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Passed by British Parliament to control colonial commerce in the New World.
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All goods must go to England before it goes to the colonies
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Carolina is founded, later split into two territories
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Taxed good sent from one colony to another
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Founded by William Penn
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Created an Admiralty court, where the Judges were from England
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