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England established the first British settlement in North America
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John Rolfe planted the first tobacco crop in Jamestown.
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The dutch sold the first 20 Africans in Virginia.
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The House of Burgess was the first representative body of white landholders in Jamestown.
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20,000 Puritans left England to settle in America
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The first law passed stated that children of slave mothers inherited her slave status, regardless of the father was free or not.
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The English seize New Amsterdam from the Dutch and re-name it New York.
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Indian uprising against the New England colonists.
