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Jamestown Virginia is founded by the Virginia Company and is the first English Colony.
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King Charles becomes absolute monarch, and people leave for America.
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King Charles is beheaded so Oliver Cromwell rules England for 10 years.
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The Navigation Act requires all imports to the colonies are transported by English ships.
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The Navigation Act sets up a custom office that collects duties on goods passed between plantations.
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600 Colonists and 3000 native Americans die in New England because of the King Phillips War.
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England creates the Sugar Act and taxes sugar, molasses, wine, and coffee to pay for colonial military costs.
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The Declaratory act tells the Colonists that the King has the right to tax them even though they dont have parliamentary representation.
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Boston Tea Party is a protest against the unfair taxation.
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The intolerable acts are enacted which blockaded the Boston Harbour causing trade to be shut down, and the meetingof the First Continental Congress in which members of the 12 of the 13 colonies meet to petition the unfair taxation.
