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Jamestown is founded by the Virginia Company.
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starving time causes the number of colonists to go down to 65
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Tobacco becomes an export staple for Virginia.
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Virginia company hit upon a recruting strategy called the head right system
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The first session of the first colonial legislative assembly, the Virginia House of Burgesses, convenes in Jamestown.
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Slavery begins in the colonies, as twenty Africans are brought by a Dutch ship to Jamestown for sale as indentured servants.
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The Mayflower ship lands at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with 101 colonists.
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The Mayflower Compact is signed, establishing a form of local government at Plymouth.
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One of the first peace treaties between colonists and Native Americans, specifically the Plymouth pilgrims and the Wampanoag Tribe, is signed with the aid of Squanto, an English-speaking Native American.
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The Puritans are the first to settle the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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The First Navigation Act is passed by Cromwell's Parliament, prohibiting the shipment of colonial goods to England in non-English ships.
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The Pennsylvania assembly bans the import of slaves.