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Period: 1530 to
English Reformation
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Encomienda System in New World
Granted by Spanish Crown in Florida -
French Traders established Port Royal in Acadia
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King James made peace with Spain
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The Virginia Company was established
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Englishmen claimed Virginia for Britain
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Quebec was established
Samuel de Champlain was its leader -
Dutch commissioned Henry Hudson to find the Northwest Passage
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Jamestown - Four hundred settlers arrived
They overwhelmed Jamestown, resulting in the "starving time" -
Sante Fe established in New Mexico
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Pocahontas married John Rolfe
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Virginia's first tobacco crop
John Rolfe crossed tobacco strains -
The Virginia Company established the House of Burgesses
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Virginia imported the first enslaved laborers
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The Netherlands chartered Dutch West India Company
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Powhatan died
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Opechancanough launched surprise attack
He killed over 350 colonists in one day -
New Amsterdam formed on Manhattan Island
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Period: to
Coronation of King Charles I
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Peter Minuit "bought" Manhattan from the wrong people
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Great Migration
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Period: to
Pequot War
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English Revolution
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The First African marriage in New World
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Period: to
Governor Kieft's War
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Navigation Act
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Period: to
The Two Esopus Wars
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New Netherland handed to England and renamed New York
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Charles Town founded
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The Great Swamp Fight
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Period: to
King Philip's War
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Bacon's Rebellion
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France criminalized Protestantism
Huguenots were persecuted in the New World -
The Dominion of New England Established
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Glorious Revolution
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Period: to
Salem Witch Trials