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Jamestown established, first permanent colony.
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The tragic death of Shakespeare occurs.
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The first enslaved Africans arrive in North America at Jamestown.
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The Mayflower pilgrims establish the Massachusetts Bay colony at Plymouth.
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Th pilgrims traveled through the Atlantic in their hard journey to reach the New World where they would end up in Plymouth.
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Indian emperor Shah Jahan begins construction of Taj Mahal that will one day be one of the most beautiful buildings in the world.
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Native Americans and Europeans viewed one another in different ways. When the natives first saw thw European ship they thouhgt it was a walking land.
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Puritan leader William Penn leaves the Old World to the New World and founds the colony of Pennsylvania.
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Cotton Marther publishes The Wonders of the Invisible World in defense of the Salem witch trials.
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The colonial population reaches about half a million.
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The Boston Tea Party marks a violent rejection of Britain's taxation policies. The Revolutionary War begins.
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The six nations of the Iroquis Confederation cede Ohio Valley territory north of the Ohio River to Britian.
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France allied with the natives to drive the British out of America.
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This is the time period when the colonies declared themselves free and independent.
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The Constitution of the United States was approved, the United states was born.
