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On this day a group of settlers set sail on three ships; the Susan Constant, the Discovery, and the Santa Maria.
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The first one hundred and five colonists arrive to Virginia.
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The Mayflower Compact is enacted.
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A group of colonists form Massachusetts.
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New Amsterdam is founded and renamed New York.
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Nathaniel Bacon destroys Jamestown and Virginia.
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William Penn names a place Penn for his last name, and sylvania for wood, because there are many trees. This is a place were people can practice the Quaker religion.
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It was to difficult to govern itself so they separated into two different states.
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Americans were not happy about taxes, so large amounts of tea ended up in the Boston Harbor.
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Delaware separates from Pennsylvania.
