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The Susan Constant, the Discovery, and the Godspeed, arrive on the coast of Virginia and continue to advance the James River for forty miles until arriving at Jamestown Island.
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The first English settlement on the new continent is officialized by the appointing of the governing council, including John Smith.
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Samuel Champlain discovers Lake Champlain and claims Vermont for the Kingdom of France.
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Young Pocahontas is married to John Rolfe of Jamestown in hopes of peace.
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A large wave of smallpox brought by the Anglos wipes out 90% of Native Americans living in the Massachusetts Bay area.
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Dutch sailors arrive in Jamestown with African indentured servants for sale.
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Members for the House of Burgesses, the first representative assembly to be held in America, are elected in Jamestown.
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A Puritan group, later to be known as the Pilgrims, lands on Plymouth Rock and decides to begin colonizing.
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The Mayflower Compact is drafted and the Pilgrims' government is solidified.
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The first Thanksgiving is held between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag tribe in Plymouth Rock. It lasted three days.
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Peter Minuit, a Dutchman, buys an island from the Man-a-hat-a Indians for $24 and accordingly named it Manhattan.
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The first permanent mission, San Bernardino, was established in modern-day Arizona by Spanish settlers.
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A Catholic colony, Maryland, is created to promote religious tolerance (specifically towards Catholics).
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After being banished from the Massachusets Bay Colony, Roger Williams founded Providence, Rhode Island as a place for the seperation of Church and State.
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Pequot tribes join forces to fight against the colonization of Massachusetts, Plymouth, and Saybrook groups.
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By the time the Treaty of Hartford ended the Pequot War, two hundred members of the Pequot were all that remained.
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The Massachusettes colony legalizes slavery.
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Opchanacanough and Powhatan tribe members attack Jamestown as a last resort against the ever growing colony but were completely unsuccessful.
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Slavery is acknowledged by the American colonies after being legalized in Connecticut.
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British Parliament passes the Navigation act in order to control trade in the colonies.
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New Netherlands is peacefully taken from the Dutch by British troops and given to the Duke of York.
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King Philip's War begins when Metacom Indian made a stand to regain their land from New England colonies, effectively destroying twelve towns.
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Nathanial Bacon leads farmers in a rebellion against Governor Berkeley of Jamestown.
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France claims Louisiana once Robert Cavelier explores the area and finds it acceptable.
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William Penn signs a treaty with the Delaware Indians to buy the land which he settles and would later dub Pennsylvania.
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The first newspaper in the US publishes its first issue in Boston but is quickly suppressed due to negative comments towards the British.
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Jamestown's governing body moves to Williamsburg after the statehouse is burned down.