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Jamestwon was the first English colony in the Americas
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41 men from the Mayflower signed the Mayflower Compact which was an agreement to enact "just and equal laws for the general good of the colony.
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Colonists from Nw England anchored at Plymouth Rock in the Americas where they started the First New England colony.
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This was the first written constitution in America, it was composed of 11 orders.
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During this time Nathaniel Bacon Jr. went on a campaign to destroy the Native Americans. He suddenly died on The 26 of October 1676 ending his reign over Virginia
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The Glorious Revolution marked the end of James II reign over England. The revolution came about because James II wanted to reinstall Roman Catholicism as the religion of England.
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The Toleration Act was an act of Parliament allowing nonconformists(i.e., Baptists) freedom of worship.
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The Virginia House of Burgesses first met on this date
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The Salem Witch Trials occured during a trying time in Salem Town. Many problems were happening at the time which caused the suspicion of witchcraft. Many were hanged because of an unfair justice system.
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John Zenger was a journalist in the New York Colony and was tried for sedition because of the items in his journal about the governor.
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A war for control over the North American continent between England and France.
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Declaration after the French and Indian War that kept the colonies from expanding westward.
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The first time the colonies tried to establish one government over all colonies
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A tax on the colonies imposed by England that required the colonists to pay a tax for all the paper they used.
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This required the colonists allow British soldiers to stay in barracks provided by the colonists. If these grew full the colonists had to take the soldiers into their homes
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An act saying that any government in the colonies was subject to Parliament's rules, laws and taxes.
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An event in the streets of Boston in which British soldiers fired on people in the streets, killing five and wounding six.
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An act to help the floundering East India Company. The tea on these ships was to be taken to the colonies and sold at a bargain price.
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A meeting of delegates from all the colonies trying to decide what to do about England, try to make peace, or seperate from them.
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After Lexington and Concord, The delegates from the colonies meet again in Philadelphia where they decided to create a Continental Army.
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The document signed by delegates from the colonies. This document declared the colonies seperate from England.
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This ocurred after the Tea Act, and colonists were angry, so a group of Massachusetts patriots boarded the ships holding the tea and poured it into the ocean.
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The Treaty of Paris ended the Revoplutionary war between Britain and the United States, and recognized American independence.
