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The founding of Jamestown, America's first permanent English colony, in Virginia in 1607.
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Hans Lippershey invented the first refracting telescope.
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This would ne the start of the Anglo-Powhatan war. A war between Jamestown colonists and the Powhatan Indians.
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Slavery start by a privateer bringing 20 African slaves ashore to Jamestown.
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To encourage settlers to come to Virginia, the Virginia Company's leaders drew up a great charter. Emigrants who paid their way to Virginia would receive fifty acres of land.
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Plymouth colony was a English colonial venture in North America. The settlement served as the capital of the colony and would later be called Massachusetts Bay.
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The Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, consisting of separatist Puritans, adventures, and tradesman.
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An act to ensure freedom of religion for Christian settlers of diverse persuasions in the colony.
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Parliament passes a second navigation act that amended their earlier policy and made tobacco from both Maryland and Virginia amount to 25 percent of English customs revenue.
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England size New Amsterdam from the Dutch and rename it New York.
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King Philip, a name given to him by settlers, was a Native America and was apart of the Wampanoag.
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Nathaniel Bacon leads an armed against Virginia governors
