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This was the first significant establishment of a colony in American from the English.
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Santa Fe, New Mexico established by Spain
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The House of Burgesses, the first representative assembly in America, meets for the first time in Virginia.
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The first African slaves were brought to Jamestown in that year.
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The Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts is established by Pilgrims from England.
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The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document in what is now the United States. It was was an agreement between 41 men aboard the Mayflower to live by a social contract.
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King Charles I of England granted the Massachusetts Bay Company a charter to trade in and colonize the part of New England that lay approximately between the Charles and Merrimack Rivers, and settlement began in 1630.
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The Pequot War was a war between the Pequot indian tribe and the colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies. The tribe was defeated to end the war.
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English seize New Amsterdam (city and colony) from the Dutch and rename it New York.
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A period of mass hysteria and genuine fear of witches gripped the Massachusetts village. The lack of any substantial proof of witchcraft caused the courts to allow spectral evidence to gain convictions. There were many women burned at the stake or drowned in an attempt to prove if they were innocent of committing witchcraft.