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Upon arriving in the New World, the English settlers chose a hidden, uninhabited peninsula for the location of their new colony. It was forty miles up the James river, swampy, and had poor soil for agriculture.
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John Rolfe crossed two different strains of tobacco and planted it in Virginia. He created Virginia's first tobacco crop.
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With Powhatan's death, his brother Opechancanough leads the Indians into a war with the British colonists.
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The Virginia Company formed the House of Burgesses, a limited representation body composed of land owners. The House of Burgesses was positioned in Jamestown, Virginia.
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A Dutch trading vessel sold twenty African slaves to the British colonist, starting southern slavery.
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Plymouth Colony was formed by the Pilgrims who sailed to America on the Mayflower to escape religious persecution.
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Opechancanough, the brother of Powhatan, leads a surprise attack on the Virginian colonists. The attack led to the death of 350 colonists, almost one third of Virginia's population.
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Dutchman Peter Minuit purchased the island of Manhattan from the Lenape Indians.
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The puritans began this migration in which over twenty thousand people traveled to New England.
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Charles I granted 12 million acres to Lord Baltimore for the formation of a Catholic colony, Maryland.
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Thomas Hooker led one hundred people from Boston to Connecticut. They left to escape the crowded conditions of Boston and to gain more religious freedom in the Connecticut River Valley.
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Roger Williams, a Massachusetts outcast, created a settlement for religious freedom. He purchased the land from the Canonicus and Miantonomi Indian tribes.
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A War with the Native Americans which the Massachusetts Bay Colonists used to enslave hundreds of Native Americans.
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English King Charles I and Parliament, after years of strained relations, go to war. Parliament eventually won and King Charles was executed.
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A war the Dutch used to enslave Algonquian Indians for exportation to the West Indies.
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Following the English Civil War, a small number of colonies in the New World pledged allegiance to the son of Charles I, Charles II. To punish these rebellious colonies, Parliament levied an economic embargo.
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Parliament created an act, the Navigation Act of 1651, that compelled merchants in British colonies to directly ship goods to England.
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Puritans revolted in Maryland to create a Puritan colony, which outlawed Catholicism and the Church of England. Attempts to quell the revolt failed until 1658.
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Two more wars the Dutch used to enslave neighboring Indian tribes, specifically the Algonquians.
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Metacom, also known as King Philip, led an uprising starting a war between the British and the Native Americans. This became known as King Philips War.
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A vast war with the Indians, after which the British enslave hundreds of Indian and shipped them to the Caribbean.
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Compounding their problems during the King Philip's War, the English attack the main Narragansett village in what was know as the Great Swamp Fight. In the battle, about 1000 English troops gunned down over 1000 Indian men, women, and children.
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The bloodless revolution in which Mary and her husband William of Orange took the throne from Mary's father, James II. It began with William and Mary invading England.
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The towns of Salem Town, Salem Village, Ipswich, and Andover all were apart of a witch paranoia the collimated with the executions of fourteen women, six men, and the deaths of multiple other convicted witches in prison.