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27 year old John Smith founded Jamestown,Virginia -
Colonist John Rolfe brought the seeds of sweeter tobacco to Jamestown in 1610. -
In 1619, an English Privateer, The White Lion, with Dutch letters of marque, brought African slaves pillaged from a Portuguese slave ship to Point Comfort. Several colonial colleges held enslaved people as workers and relied on them to operate. -
The elected burgesses formed the first House Of Burgesses,modeled on England's Parliament -
A group of Puritans known as the Pilgrims left Britain for America so they could worship freely -
In 1630,about 1,000 Puritans founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony -
English Catholics founded Maryland in 1634 -
Charles I was convicted of treason and executed on 30 January 1649 outside the Banqueting House in Whitehall. -
The Quakers,a religious group that had also been persecuted in England,established Pennsylvania in 1680 -
By the early 1700's,the English had thirteen colonies along the Atlantic coast of North America -
Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
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In 1765,Parliament passed the stamp act,which taxed newspapers and other printed material.