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Port Acadia established in modern-day Nova Scotia
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Jamestown, Virginia, becomes the first permanent English colonial settlement.
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Henry Hudson claims part of North America, New Netherlands, for the Dutch.
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City of Santa Fe established in New Mexico, and is currently the oldest capital city in the US.
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Tobacco became an essential crop for the economies of the colonies.
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First African slaves arrive in Virginia.
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Additionally, Mayflower Compact is signed, providing basis for colonial government.
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Almost 350 colonists killed by a Indian raid on Jamestown.
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The Dutch purchased Manhattan from the Munsee Indians.
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War between Peqot tribe and the colonists, who used help from other local Indians. Ended in effective elimination of the Peqots
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Military confederation of Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, Connecticut, and New Haven.
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England banned foreign ships from trading with their colonies.
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The new colony became New York.
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Group of colonists led by Nathaniel Bacon believed there was "a massive Indian conspiracy to destroy the English," and attacked both hostile and freindly Indians.
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Puebloan religious leader Popé leads a rebellion against Spanish in Santa Fe, and seize New Mexico
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Spanish recapture New Mexico from the Pueblo Indians.
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