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A lack of enforcement with laws on the new colonies from the british.
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3 ships of 103 men and boys settled in virginia and named the town after their King James I.
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First legislative assembly in the colonies, their first form of government.
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Pilgrims sail across ocean on mayflower to settle at plymouth rock.
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41 men came together to agree upon following rules which led to the first self-governed society in America.
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1st constitution written in the new world.
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Nathaniel Bacon lead a revolution against Governor William Berkeley. He lead this revolution due to the lack of economical improvements. His group would ultimately attack natives for supplies which Berkeley didn’t like. So they would fight for years until Bacon’s death.
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Declared the right and liberties of the people and settling the succession of William III and Mary III following the Glorious Revolution.
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The British overthrew King James II by a union of of English Parliamentarians.
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A series of hearings and prosecutions of people being accused of witchcraft.
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Five Nations, was an alliance of five, later six, American Indian tribes—the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, and Tuscarora.
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Accused of libel, went to court. famous lawyer stepped up to defend him, Andrew Hamilton, for sake of liberty and freedom of press.