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The first permanent English settlement in North America. -
Sir Thomas Gates is deputy governor until the arrival of Thomas West, Lord De La Warr, the newly appointed governor of Jamestown. The Virginia Company sends the Reverend Richard Buck to Jamestown to be the colony's first chaplain.
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The King James Version, also the King James Bible and the Authorized Version is an Early Modern English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England. -
The middle passage forced the voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. -
The first English representative government in North America, for the purpose of passing laws and maintaining order in the Jamestown Colony of Virginia and the other settlements that had grown up around it. -
The first slaves to arrive in america on Chesapeake bay and when to Jamestown. -
King James I sent 100 pilgrims to colonize the new land on the Mayflower. The pilgrims were able to secure peace treaties with the Native Americans, but roughly half of them died after the first winter, due to the inexperience with the new world weather. -
The first document for British colonials in america . -
A conflict between the Native American Pequot tribe and the English immigrants who had established settlements in New England between 1620-1630. -
The Middle Colonies had much fertile soil which allowed the area to become a major exporter of wheat and other grains.