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First permanent English settlement
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First permanent French settlement in the New World. French treated natives with respect
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Henry Hudson established New Amsterdamn for the Dutch
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First Africans came to Virginia as indentured servants
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Mayflower lands at Cap Cod, Massachusetts. People that came over were Puritains and created Mayflower compact
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First official college in the New World founded in Caimbridge, Massachusetts
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First official printing press is set up in Caimbridge Massachusetts
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Puritains emphasized importance of education of the Bible and started first tax-supported school. Towns of over fifty families were required to have primary schools for boys and towns over one hundred families were required to prepare boys for college
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Calvery persuaded assembly to grant religious freedom to all Christians
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Rhode Island passes a law making slavery illegal
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Law passed that stated Africans were to be treated as life-long slaves while what laborers were set free after a certain number of years
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Virginian governent attempted to raise the taxes on tobacco so the merchants responded by raising the prices of goods exported
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Sir William Berkley adopted policies that favored the large planters and used dictorial powers to govern. He antagonized backwoods farmers. Bacon and poverish gentlemen rebelled
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Navigation Act of 1663 requires that most imports to the colonies must be transported via England on English ships
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An Indian cheif of the Wampanoags and his tribe fought English settlers in a brutal war
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Pennsilvania governing body passes law that prohibits slaves from being imported to the colony
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Benjamin Franklin's advice was collected into Poor Richard's almanack
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John Peter Zenger was brought to trial for libelously criticising New York's royal governor. He claims he spoke truth and that the truth deserved to be heard. Established freedom of the press
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Jonathan Edwards initiates Great Awakening
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War between the French and Indians in the New World