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Jamestown is established as the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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Samuel de Champlain establishes the city of Quebec in the Name of France giving France claim to most of Canada.
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John Rolfe combines different strands of tobacco to produce Jamestown's first stable cash crop that is able to get them back up on their feet.
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Dutch traders arrive in Jamestown to sell them America's first 20 slaves and sparking the Southern Slave trade.
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Opechancanough launches a surprise attack on the colony of Virginia in one night in the hopes of driving out the English. They kill about 300 settlers.
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Lord Baltimore charters the colony of Maryland in the hopes of creating a safe haven for both Catholics and Protestants. However, his colony is filled with a surge of Protestants
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Thomas Hooker founds the colony of Connecticut with offers of goods and land.
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Roger Williams who was forced to flee Massachusetts starts Rhode Island for religious freedom.
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The Pequot Indians fight because they are being shoved out of their land by the settlers
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A Native American by the Name pf King Philip launched a major attack against the British colonies in an attempt to drive them out in response to the killings of Native American College students.
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William of Orange is able to overtake the British throne without killing the current monarch causing waves in American society.