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Columbus arrives in the New World believing he found a route to the Indies. Goes to his grave not knowing he discovered the New World.
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A treaty dividing the new lands outside of Europe between Crown of Portugal and Crown of Castile along a meridian.
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Europeans bring smallpox over with them. Native Americans do not have the anibodies to fight off the disease. Large percentage of the Native American population killed.
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A major 16th century European movement aimed at reforming the beliefs and practices of the Roman Catholic Church.
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Francisco Coronado lead a group of spanish explorers to southwerstern america, looking for rumored Cities of Gold.
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Tobacco is introduced to Europe. Later proves helpful to many colonies.
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A pair of English joint stock companies chartered by James I, with the purposes of establishing settlements on the coast of North America.
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The first permanent English settlement in the Americas. Established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" on May 14, 1607
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Ship transporting pilgrims looking to escape religious persecution,
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A law mandating religious tolerance for trinitarian Christians.
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an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their Native American allies
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an uprising in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by Nathaniel Bacon.
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Founded by William Penn as a "Holy experiment" where all faiths would be welcomed to settled.
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the overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians.
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Series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts
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The second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought between France and England
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Series of laws enacted by the Colony of Virginia's House of Burgesses regulating activities related to interactions between slaves and U.S. citizens in the U.S. state of Virginia.
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The intellectual thriving period in America in the mid-to-late 18th century.
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War between England and France.
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Several periods of religious revival in American religious history.