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The first permanent English settlement in America. It is established by the London Company in southeast Virginia.
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The colony lacked supplies and clashed with the natives
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John Rolfe grew the first tobacco in Virginia
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The colonists grew tobacco in 1616 and shipped it to the British Empire in 1617
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the first representative assembly in America meets for the first time in Virginia. The first African slaves are brought to Jamestown.
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The Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts is established by Pilgrims from England.
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About twenty thousand Puritans migrated to New England
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In 1632, Charles I set a tract of about 12 million acres of land at the northern tip of the Chesapeake Bay aside for a second colony in America.
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In 1636-1637, Massachusetts Bay colonists sold hundreds of Native Americans into slavery in the West Indies.
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Colonial population is estimated at 50,400.
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Parliament responded with an act in 1650 that leveled an economic embargo on the rebelling colonies.
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English seize New Amsterdam from the Dutch and rename it New York.
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In 1664, the Duke of York granted the area between the Hudson and Delaware rivers to two English noblemen. These lands were split into two distinct colonies, East Jersey and West Jersey.
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The native Americans clashed with the colonists, and the war changed the political and demographic landscape of New England
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In 1676, Bacon led the Bacon Rebellion, which tried to overthrow the colonial government. It ended with his death and his surrender in January 1677
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In New Mexico, the Puebloans eradicated all traces of Spanish rule. They destroyed churches and threw themselves into rivers to wash away their Christian baptisms. “The God of the Christians is dead,” Popé proclaimed, and the Puebloans resumed traditional spiritual practices. The Spanish were exiled for twelve years. They returned in 1692, weakened, to reconquer New Mexico.
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William Penn received a royal charter from Charles II to establish Pennsylvania.
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The Glorious Revolution took place in England in 1688
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Due to some supernatural phenomenon, the witch hunt took place in Massachusetts
