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French colonization developed through investment from trading companies. The traders established a Port Royal in Acadia (Nova Scotia) and launched trading expeditions that stretched down the Atlantic Coast.
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James 1, approved the formation of the Virginia Company (named after Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen).
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In 1609 the Dutch commissioned Henry Hudson to discover the Northwest Passage.
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The first permanent European settlement was established in the Southwest.
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Two major events occurred this year. First, the Virginia Company established the House of Burgesses. Second, a Dutch slave ship sold twenty Africans to the Virginia colonists. Which caused slavery to be born.
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The Pilgrims boarded the Mayflower and founded the Plymouth Colony.
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The Netherlands chartered the Dutch West India Company.
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Colony leaders insisted that land be purchased, therefore Peter Minuit "bought" Manhattan from Munsee people.
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The Navigation Act was aimed at the Dutch in order to cripple their freight trade.
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Virginia passed a law stating that an enslaved woman's children inherit the "condition" of their mother.
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The English wrested control of New Amsterdam and renamed it New York.