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The Virginia Company receives royal charter.
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English colonists found Jamestown settlemtent; Pocahontas "rescues" John Smith
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Starvation plagues Jamestown
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John Rolfe begins to plant tobacco in Virginia
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Powhatan dies; Opechancanough becomes chief of the Algonquians
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First commercial tobacco shipment leaves for England; Pocahontas dies in England
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First Africans arrive in Virginia; House of Burgesses begins to meet in Virginia.
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Opechancanough leads first Indian uprising against Virginia colonists
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Virginia officially becomes a royal colony.
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Barbados colonized by English.
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King Charles I grants Lord Baltimore land for colony of Maryland
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Colonists begin to arrive in Maryland
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Barbados colonists begin to grow sugarcane with labor of African slaves
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Opechancanough leads second Indian uprising against Virginia colonists
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Navigation Act imposes mercantilist requirement that colonial products to be shipped only to English ports; Virginia law defines slavery as inherited, lifelong servitude
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Royal charter granted for Carolina colony
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Charles Towne, South Carolina, founded
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Slave labor system emerges in Carolina and Chesapeake colonies.
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Bacon's rebellion
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Pueblo Revolt
