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First permanent English settlement
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First cash crop of America was tobacco. The colonies started to grow rapidly due to the cash crop.
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First General Assembly of the representative legislature
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Africans were kidnapped by Portuguese and bought by the residents of Jamestown
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The Pilgrims sailed across the Atlantic Ocean for sixty days on the Mayflower, and arrived at Plymouth.
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Indians came bearing gifts of meat, fruit, and other tradable items, but later the Indians attacked the settlers of Jamestown. They killed women, children, men, and servants, which totaled up to 347 residents.
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Founded by the Dutch. Director General Peter Minuit, charged by the West India Company, had the task of helping the struggling colony. Minuit "purchased" Manhattan Island from Native American Indians for the price of 24 dollars in modern day currency
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Founded by John Winthrop
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Founded by George Calvert
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Founded by Thomas Hooker
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Founded by John Davenport
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John Endicott to assembled 90 men to seek out the Island tribe of Pequot and demand their surrender. Endicott destroys the Island settlement. In retaliation, the Pequot attacked Fort Saybrook.
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Puritans in the Massachusetts colony imprison, abuse, and banish the first Quakers that arrived in the New World
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It begins when King Philip leads an attack against Swansea in retaliation for the execution of three Wampanoag tribe members. King Philip is betrayed and shot on, and the war ends when Sir Edmond Andros makes peace in 1678
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Bacon's Rebellion, revolt in colonial Virginia, led by Nathaniel Bacon. High taxes, low prices for tobacco, and resentment against special privileges given those close to the governor provided the reasons for the uprising