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Port Royal was established by traders who hoped to explore the Atlantic Coast
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England began to explore the New World looking for valuable trade substances.
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Englishmen aboard three ships settled on Jamestown in present-day Virginia.
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Quebec was founded by Samuel de Champlain, beginning what was known as "New France".
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The Dutch government hired Henry Hudson to discover the "Northwest Passage" through North America. He failed, but did discover New York, and settled it as Dutch territory.
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400 more settlers arrived in Jamestown. Supplies were lost at sea, settlers went to war with the Powhatan people. Settlers resorted to foraging, eating boiled leather, corpses of humans and animals. By the summer of 1610, only 60 settlers remained.
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Santa Fe was the first European settlement established in the Southwest by Governor Don Pedro de Peralta
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The marriage eased the tension between the Powhatan people and the English settlers,
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John Rolfe blended Trinidad and Guiana strains of Tobacco and planted Virginia's first tobacco crop.Tobacco Remains America's leading crop until the cotton boom.
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Established by the Virginia Company and made of up land owners, the House of Burgesses was the Colonies first elected general assembly.
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The Netherlands established the Dutch-West India Company and established settlements in Africa, the Caribbean, and North America.
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Opechancanough launched a surprise attack killing over 350 colonists. In turn, the Virginia governor ordered a colonial policy to run the "savages" out and gain control of the land.
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The Dutch-West India Trading Company established colonies in New Amsterdam and Manhattan Island to grow their fur trade.
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Dutch Leader, Peter Minuit "bought" Manhattan, NY from the Munsee, Native American people. The Munsee people and the Dutch had two different understandings of this purchase.
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Due to a labor shortage in North American Dutch lands, the Dutch began bringing in enslaved laborers.
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King Charles I dedicated 12 million acres of land for future settlements
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Thomas Hooker founded Newtown in June 1636
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War between New England and Pequot People
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John Davenport settled in New Haven.
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War between New Netherlands and Lenape Indians
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The Irish Rebellion and the strained relationship between King Charles and Parliament Contributed to a Civil War in England
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This law made African Women a "tithable" purchase.
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Parliament won the war in England, and they had Charles executed, and England became a republic under Oliver Cromwell
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Restricted trade goods coming into England trying to make Britain more self-sufficient.
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War Between Dutch settlers and Esopus Indians
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Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson published the first Bible in America.
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This law stated that the children of an enslaved woman would inherit their mother's condition
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New Netherlands' small populations made them vulnerable to attack by Great Britain. In 1664, the Dutch were forced to hand over their lands.
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Established by British colonists as a port for slave trading.
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1,000 Englishmen set fire to the village of Narragansett, and killed as many as 1,000 Narragansett men, women, and children
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Battle between New England and Native Americans who encroached on the settled land
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Created by King James II to consolidate New England Colonies.
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The Society of Friends in Germantown started a petition with the Quakers to protest slavery.
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Parliament passed a Bill of Rights which curtailed the power of the monarchy and cemented Protestantism in England
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Massachusetts became the first place to issue paper bills as money
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Fourteen women and six men were executed for being "witches".
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The Spanish King the Decree of Sanctuary, giving freedom to enslaved people fleeing English Colonies if they converted to Spanish beliefs.