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The first English settlement in the new world. Jamestown Virginia.
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The Dutch established fur trade with the indigenous peoples on Manhattan Island part of a certain exploration by Adriean Block. The crop known as tobacco is being grown by the Virginian colonists.
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A small pox epidemic breaks out in the New England colonies desecrating the indigenous peoples population. This is known as the great dying.
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In 1619 the very first slaves were transported over into Jamestown
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Another event that took place in 1619 was the first meeting of the house of burgesses. The first representative assembly in America.
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The Dutch established the colony of New Netherland in the Hudson, Delaware, and Connecticut river valleys this would eventually become New York.
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A group of settlers lead by john endecott settle in Salem this is the beginning of the Massachusetts bay colony.
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The city of boston is officially established
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In the Massachusetts bay colony they have issued a no taxation without representation policy and representative government is beginning to be addressed.
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After Roger Williams is banished from the Massachusetts colony in 1635 for suggesting the separation of church and state he founds Rhode Island in 1636.
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After high tensions and multiple encounters the colonists of the Plymouth, Connecticut, and the Massachusetts bay colonies slaughtered the Pequot tribe.
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New Netherland fights Hudson river valley indigenous peoples who have been making raids on them it will last until 1645 when they will make a truce.
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Both maine and maryland give religious freedom a pass by signing acts.
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England passes the Navigation Act which refused imports from the colonies which in turn put supply shortages on the colonies badly hurting them.
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Rhode Island passes a law that prohibits enslavement but it is not heavily enforced.
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Because of the Navigation Act in 1651 and the supply shortage in the colonies the first battle of the Anglo-Dutch war breaks out in 1652 and the war doesn't end until 1654.
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The New England Confederation is formed to keep England in the ongoing Anglo-Dutch wars. It is comprised of Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven Colonies
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This act only allowed for ships with a 3 quarter english crew as acceptable to trade with and goods such as sugar and tobacco was only allowed to be traded with england or the english colonies.
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The elliot bible is the first one printed in the colonies and was published at Harvard College in cambridge.
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The duke of york takes the the city known as new amsterdam and renames it New York
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Fundamental Constitutions written partly by John Locke are Issued in Carolina providing for religious tolerance.
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During the third Anglo-Dutch war the Dutch launch a naval attack and take manhattan and a few other towns including new York now named New Orange.
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Bacon takes a group of 500 men and fights indians and eventually burns jamestown to the ground then dies of a fever.
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William Penn receives charter to build pennslyvanina
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Sieur de la Salle claims the mouth of mississippi for france and names it La louisiane in honor of king Louis
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King james the second creates the dominion of New England a mega colony including Massachusetts bay, plymouth, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island. Sir Edmund Andros is named governor General.
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Governor Andros starts the war by raiding the home and village of french military officer Jean Vincent de'Abbadie de Saint-Castine
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After Colonial rebels put governor Andros in jail the New England colonies re-instutute their own governments.
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French and Indian forces attack New York, Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts
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Witch trials begin with the execution of Tituba and 20 others soon followed.
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To keep the Iroquois from alling with the french colonist from connecticut massachusetts bay new jerersy and New York sign a peace treaty.
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Parliment limits colonial trade to english vessels
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Ends King Williams war and Restores all colonial posessions
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First banning Catholic priest in 1647 they now require that the priest leave within 3 months or be arrested