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First permanent English colony
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First French Colony
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John Rolfe grows a better tobacco crop than previous ones
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House of Burgesses created, women arrive, first Africans arrive
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Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock December 1620, after the winter colonists create Mayflower Compact and found colony
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First Permanent Dutch Colony, Colonized with families
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Puritan colony
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Settlers bought land from natives
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Roger Williams founds Rhode Island in 1636 after being banished from Massachusetts Bay, called the "Sewer of New England"
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Planned colony, granted to John Mason
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Divided into upper and lower houses in 1650
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Thomas Hooker leaves Massachusetts Bay and convinces 100 others to come with him, not officially recognized as a colony by the king until 1662
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James I believing in his divine right to rule, does away with parliament, threatens to drive out Puritans
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Aimed at Dutch, forced shipping to be done exclusively through English ships
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Limits what can be shipped
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All European goods must pass through England before they are sent to colonies
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Taken from Dutch, both later became Royal Colonies
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Taxed shipping between colonies
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Supposedly started over a pig, Nathaniel Bacon attacks natives with a militia
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William Penn cashes in a debt owed to his father by the king to obtain land in the New World
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James Scott, illegitimate son of Charles II attempts to overthrow James II, but defeated
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Organization that tightened control over colonies, said colonists left their rights in England
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Bloodless coup to overthrow King James II
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Started over two girls' fits, people began to be accused for anything, slowed down by 1693
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Court enforced other acts