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In the late 1500's and early 1600's, the Spanish crown encouraged settlement in the Americas through the "Ecomienda" System, which offered grants of Indian labor.
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It was established in 1606 in hopes to find gold and silver.
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First permanent English settlement in present-day United States. However, the location was a disaster due to terrible soil for agriculture and tidal waters led to disease.
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In 1608, Quebec became the foothold for what would become New France. People in New France would become fur traders and thanks to their cooperation with the Indians, they would become a sucessful colony.
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Henry Hudson was comissioned by the Dutch to discover the Northwest Passage.
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Established in 1610, Santa Fe, located in the Southwest, was the first European settlement.
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In the winter of 1609-1610 Englishmen lost all of their supplies at sea and they were starving to death. Powhatan and his people helped the Englishmen.
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The production of tobacco saved Jamestown. The first cargo of tobacco was sent to England in the year 1617. For the next forty years America will export fifteen million pounds of tobacco.
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First Dutch ship arrived with 20 slaves in America.
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The House of Burgesses, a group of white landowners, was established.
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Roger Williams created the settlement of Providence in 1636.
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"Bay Psaml Book" was the first one to be printed in the year of 1640.
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Granted religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland.
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This is when English throne was offered to Dutch Prince William of Holand and Mary, his English bride who was the daughter of James II.
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Three ships of from the Barbados landed on Ashley River, this is where they founded Charles Town.
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In the winter of 1675, there was great conflict between Indians and Englishmen. The breaking point was when the body of John Sassamon was found under an icy pond. Three Indians were declared guilty for the death of Sassamon and executed. Later, nine English colonists were killed by a group of Wampanoags, thus causing King Philip's War.
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Bacon's Rebellion started when a group of Doeg Indians visited Thomas Matthew to collect a debt. Thomas Matthew refused to pay, so the Indians collected pigs from his plantation in northern Virginia to settle the debt. Thomas acussed them of thieves and later killed fourteen Susquehannock Indians, mistaking them for Doegs. The Susquehannocks later killed colonists in Virginia and Maryland. The conflict worsened when Susquehannock ambassadors where killed under the flag of truce.
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When their leader, Popé, was wipped and arrested for "sorcery." This even led many of Puebloan groups in rebellion around a thousand of them killed four hundred Spaniards and Franciscan priests. Arounds two thousand Spaniard fleed Santa Fe. Afterwards, Puebloans destoryed many churches and washed off their Christian baptizims in rivers. The Puebloan resistance is on of the "greatest" in North America History.
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The first colony to distribute paper money was Massachusetts .
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Lords Proprietor founded North Carolina in 1691.
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The Spanish crown offered freedom to slaves if they swore loyalty to Spain and converted to Catholicism.