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James 1 creates the Virginia company for managing the funds required for colonization.
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The London Company founds the first permanent English settlement is founded in Virginia.
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Rolfe crossed Trinidad and Guiana tobaccos and created a popular strain, setting off a tobacco boom and increasing immigration to Jamestown.
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The Virginia company established the House of Burgesses as a representative body.
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Ditch slavers sold 20 Africans to the colonists, beginning the tradition of Sothern slavery.
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Puritan colonists on the Mayflower cross the ocean and land at Plymouth. They draw up the Mayflower Compact and found the Plymouth settlement.
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Opechancanough attacks the colonists killing 1/3rd of them and beginning the colonists retaliation against his incursion.
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20,000 people travel to the New World. Mainly puritans attempting to escape persecution.
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Massachusetts Bay colonists defeated Natives and sold them into slavery.
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Parliament forced the colonies to trade exclusively with Britain, severely limiting their trade ability.
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England conquers New Amsterdam and renames it New York.
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A war between the Native Wampanoag tribe and the colonists. The colonists were the victors.
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Paranoia regarding the supernatural sweeps the colonies and men and women are tried as witchs.