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They journey began with three ships, the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery. This would be the first permanent English settlement in America
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The "noxious weed" fetched a high price in Europe. Tobacco was the most successful cash crop grown in Virginia. John Rolfe crossed
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In 1619, the Virginia Company established the House of Burgesses, a limited representative body composed of white landowners that first met in Jamestown. That same year, a Dutch slave ship sold twenty Africans to the Virginia colonists, southern slavery was born.
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Sought to reduce influence of ritual and hierarchy. James I was a believer in divine rights of kings, claimed to rule by divine rights and did away with Parliament and threatened to drive the Puritans out. In the end the Puritans defeated and beheaded the king.
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This document coauthored by Locke explicitly legalized slavery from the very beginning
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Indian conflicts helped trigger the revolt against royal authorities known as Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia. The rebellion began with an argument over a pig.
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This was an attempt to overthrow James II upon the death of his brother.
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Bloodless coup ot overthrow King James II,
Abolished absolutism,
Established constitutional monarchy
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Devastated Native Americans of Southern New England and was mainly fought to control the fur trade.