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The first colony was founded at Jamestown, Virginia - refer to Virginia Colony
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good order in Virginia The 'Starving Time' referred to the situation at Jamestown in the Colony of Virginia when the Powhatan Confederacy attempted to remove the English from Virginia by starvation
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Massachusetts, United States. The Mayflower Compact was a legal document written by the Pilgrims to specify basic laws and social rules for their new colony.
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The Dutch surrendered New Netherlands without a fight and it was renamed New York.
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The Quakers, or Society of Friends, was a Protestant sect founded in England whose members believed that salvation was available to all people
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1639, three settlements joined to form a unified government creating a document called the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, the first written constitution in America
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Rhode Island. Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded Providence. Anne Hutchinson was also banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and she settled Portsmouth
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to his brother James, Duke of York who took a fleet to the area.
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became separate Proprietary Colonies - refer to North Carolina Colony and South Carolina Colony
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New Netherlands, which became New York, was settled by the Dutch - refer to Peter Stuyvesant and Peter Minuit.
