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The first settlement in America -
The first representative assembly in America. -
The Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts is established by Pilgrims from England.
The first form of a government document. -
The pilgrims and Indians unite for a feast of allies. -
The first college to be established in North America, founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, -
Massachusetts Bay Colony organizes three militias to protect itself from the Pequot Indians. The formation is regarded as the founding of the National Guard.
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Pequot War ends with the Treaty of Hartford after three years of battles between the New England colonists and native tribes.
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The Bay Psalm, produced in Cambridge, Massachusetts -
English take New Amsterdam from the Dutch and rename it, New York. -
The Salem witch hunts, spurred by preaching, results in the arrest of one hundred and fifty people and the death of nineteen.
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Bacon's Rebellion causes the burning of Jamestown. Nathanial Bacon leads the rebellion of planters against Governor Berkeley.
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