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Jamestown, Virginia was the first permanent English settlement.
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In 1619, North America reicieved it's first enslaved Africans in Jamestown,
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The pilgrims landed in North America and establish the Massechusetts Bay Colony at Plymouth.
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Boston begins North America's first public school.
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With the Puritans winning King Philip's War, Native American's resistance to the New England colonies is weakened.
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Pennsylvania, or Penn's Woods, is founded by William Penn.
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The Quakers speak out on their opposition to slavery.
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The Salem Witch Trials show signs of mass chaos in the colonies.
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Boston has a population of about 12,000 and the colonial population as a whole is about half a million.
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The Great Awakening was a religous revival that occured from 1739-1742.
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The Iroquois Confederation (many differernt tribes that banded together) capture the Ohio River Valley from the British.
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The igniting event that led to the Revolutionary War. The coloniest rejected British taxes.
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The Second Continental Congress creates and adopts the Declaration of Independence.
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With the defeat of the British at the Battle of Yorktown, the colonists win the Revolutionary War.
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The U.S. Constitution is approved.
