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The journey to Virginia began on three ships, the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery. Men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I.
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The House of Burgesses, the first representative assembly in America, meets for the first time in Virginia. The first African slaves are brought to Jamestown.
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Dutch slave ship sold twenty Africans to the Virginia colonists. Slavery was born in the South.
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The Plymouth Colony is founded in 1620 by Pilgrims fleeing to England in hopes of founding a colony of religious freedom.
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First famework of goverment in the U.S. written by pilgrims
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William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1630, hoping to create a religiously tolerant colony.
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After Roger Williams exile, he created a settlement called Providence in 1636.. He negotiated for the land with the local Narragansett sachems Canonicus and Miatonomi. Williams and his fellow settlers agreed on an egalitarian constitution and established religious and political freedom in the colony.
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The Navigation Act is passed by British Parliament to control colonial commerce in the New World
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When a group of Doeg Natives became involved in a disagreement with a Virginia settler, misguided violence escalated the event to a full-scale conflict. A group of colonists led by Nathaniel Bacon began openly attacking all Natives in the area through their claim of self defense. Ironically, the colony's government largely saw Bacon as the trouble-causing enemy. The result of the rebellion was an angered native population and open hatred between natives and the colonists.
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The French and Indian War pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France, each side supported by military units from the parent country and by Native American allies.Ended in 1763