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Columbus's adventures opened the door to a century of Spanish expeditions in the americas.
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Published one of his writings called A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
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Puritans were a group of English Protestants who had sought to "purify" the Church of England and return to simpler way of worshiping.
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The first enslaved africans arrive in North America at Jamestown.
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The Mayflower pilgrims establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony at Plymouth.
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Publishes The General History of Virginia
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He wrote that "we must consider that we shall be as a City upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us."
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describes his journey across the Atlantic and pilgrims' settlement in Of Plymouth Plantation
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North America's first public school is founded in Boston.
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This is the first book ever printed in America
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The Puritans' victory in King Phillip's War ends Native American resistance in New England colonies.
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Cotton Mather publishes The Wonders of the Invisible World in defense of the Salem witch trials.
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When France allied with a number of Native American groups to drive the British out of North America
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She publishes The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, an account of her captivity at the hands of Algonquian Indians.
