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Named after their King, James I, Jamestown was founded by 104 English men and boys. Jamestown was founded in 1607.
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The Pequot War was an armed conflict between the Pequot tribe and the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay. It lasted between 1636 and 1637
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The purpose of the Navigation acts was to encourage British shipping and to restrict Dutch shipping.
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Half-way covenant was a form of partial church membership created by New England. It was created because the English colonies were drifting away from its original purpose,
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The King Phillip's war is also known Metocoms Rebellion. This marked the last effort of Native Americans of Southern New England to drive out English.
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It was a rebellion against the Indians and upper classes who governed Virginia
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A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. 20 people were killed during these trials.
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John Peter Zenger was a German immigrant who wrote a New York weekly journal. He pointed out the actions of the corrupt royal governer.
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The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. "join or die".
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The seven years war is also called the French and Indian war. The war was fought between the colonies of British America and New France.
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The Native Americans had fear of people taking their land. The Indian tribes united and attacked in Detroit,
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Founded by John Winthrop, Thomas Dudley and other Puritans. The puritans wanted a place where they could be free to practice their own religion.
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The Great migration was a mass movement of African Americans to the North and west. It lasted from 1916 to 1970.
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