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The first permanent English Settlement.
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The first enslaved Africans arrive in North America at Jamestown
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The Mayflower pilgrims establish the Mfassachusetts Bay Colony at Plymouth
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"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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The first book issued in the North American colonies was the "Bay Psalm Book", in which the Bible's Psalms were rewritten to fit the rhythms of familiar Puritan hymns.
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"The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America" was the first work by a North American woman to be published.
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A burst of intellectual energy took place in Europe
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The English colonies stretched all along the Atlantic coast and once rooted in North American Soil, the colonies became increasingly self-reliant nad practiced local self-rule
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Jonathan Edwards delivers a sermaon called "Sinners in the Hanads of and Angry God." The sermon typifies the religious movement know as the Great Awakening.
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France allied with a number of Native American groups to drive the British out of North America
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2 thousand pamphlets were published and became the fuel of the revolution.
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The Boston Tea Party marks a violent rejection of Britain's taxation policies.
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"I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!" (Virginia Convention)
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A war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Thirteen Colonies
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The Declaration of Independence is written by Thomas Jefferson
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THe colonies declared themselves to be "free and independent" and fought and defeated one of the greatest military powers on Earth to turn their declaration into reality
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Contained the 7 Articles of supreme law