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The founding of Jamestown, America’s first permanent English colony, in Virginia in 1607 – 13 years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in Massachusetts – sparked a series of cultural encounters that helped shape the nation and the world. The government, language, customs, beliefs and aspirations of these early Virginians are all part of the United States’ heritage today.
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smith was badly buarnd. when smith's gun powter bag lit on fire.
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Some 100 people, many of them seeking religious freedom in the New World, set sail from England on the Mayflower in September 1620.
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Thirty Dutch families arrive to establish a colony in New York.
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John Winthrop (12 January 1588 - 26 March 1649) was famous for the founding, and as a leader of, the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England. He was a strict Puritan and the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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the first settlers in Maryyland
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Rhode Island enacts the first colonial law making slavery illegal
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King Charles 2 of England establishes the colony of Carolina.
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One they they did was to write the Concession and agreement in 1665
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a legal matter tested the patience of the colonists
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The Sugar Act of 1764 was by a british law passed by the Parliament of the great britin on April 5, 1764, that was designed to raise revenue from the American colonists in the 13 Colonies.
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it is where there is a tax on the stamp but it is called the stamp act.
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When armed conflict between bands of American colonists and British soldiers began in April 1775, the Americans were ostensibly fighting only for their rights as subjects of the British crown.
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Townshend hoped the acts would defray imperial expenses in the colonies, but many Americans viewed the taxation as an abuse of power, resulting in the passage of agreements to limit imports from Britain.
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a colonist thew a snow at one of the grards.
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the bostion masscer started whan a colonist thow a snowballs at a gard.
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The Tea Act of 1773 was of several measures imposed on the American colonists by the heavily indebted British government in the decade leading up to the American Revolutionary War (1775-83).
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the king taxed the tea and they were mad so they want to all the ships and fond all the tea and dumped all the tea.
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The Coercive Acts were a series of four acts established by the British government. The aim of the legislation was to restore order in Massachusetts and punish Bostonians for their Tea Party, in which members of the revolutionary-minded Sons of Liberty boarded three British tea ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 crates of tea—nearly $1 million worth in today’s money—into the water to protest the Tea Act.
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The Olive Branch Petition, drafted on July 5, 1775, was a letter to King George III, from members of the Second Continental Congress, which represents the last attempt by the moderate party in North America to avoid a war of independence against Britain
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In fact, independence was formally declared on July 2, 1776, a date that John Adams believed would be “the most memorable epocha in the history of America.” On July 4, 1776, Congress approved the final text of the Declaration. It wasn't signed until August 2, 1776.
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The French foreign minister, the Comte de Vergennes, expected the Americans to coordinate their diplomatic strategy with the French, but the Americans distrusted the French attachment to their cause and pursued an independent course.
