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The Virginia Company of London founds the first colony in NOrth America: Jamestown, Virginia.
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Rhode Island colony outlaws slavery.
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King Phillips War in New England leaves 600 colonists and 3000 Native Americans dead.
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Salem, Massachusetts has the witchcraft trials.
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There are 140,000 black slaves in the English colonies of America.
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Benjamin Franklin founds the first Scientific Society in America at Philadelphia.
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Sugar Act England taxes sugar, molasses, wine, and coffee coming into the colonies to help pay for colonial military costs.
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Townshend Act tax tea, glass, lead, paint, and other items imported into the colonies.
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Two million people are living in England's American colonies. Five americans are killed by British soliders in the "Boston Massacre"
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Boston Tea Party: A protest against taxation.
