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Three ships, the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery carrying 104 settlers started a months long journey to the New World.
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Jamestown becomes the first English settlement, named after King James 1.
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John Rolfe and Pocahontas are married in Jamestown. The union created peace between the colonists and the Powhatan and introduced the tobacco crop to America.
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A religious war between Protestants and Catholics in Central Europe.
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The first democratically elected leadership body in early America.
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The first document drafted in the American colonies that established self-government.
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The Powhatan Indian attack on the settlement of Jamestown that resulted in the deaths of 347 settlers.
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Law of hereditary slavery enacted in Virginia stating that children born to an enslaved woman would inherit her slave status.
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Nathaniel Bacon's revolt against Governor Berkley that led to the burning of Jamestown.
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Mary II and her husband William III depose May's father, James II, as king and assume the throne.
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Massachusetts issues first paper currency.
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Early Massachusetts trial of more than 200 people accused of being witches.
