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1492-1770- Exploration& Colonization of the Americas
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1619-1st Slaves Arrive in Jamestown
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1620 to present- mass immagration to N.& S. America leads to redidtrabution of the global populaton
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Plymouth was founded by pilgrims after signing the Mayflower
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1640s- House of Burgesses (1st legislative body) has been esteblished
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Thomas Paine was an English immigrant to America
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1730s-1750- Great Awakeing; led to growth of evangelical religion ( methodists/baptists)
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geographical region served as the western boundary of the American colonies prior to 1763
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Declaration of Independence signed 1776