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Jamestown was the first permanent British settlement in North America, it was named after King James.
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Henry Hudson was employed by the Dutch to look for a Northwest passage. He explored the HudsonRiver and Hudson Bay.
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Santa Fe is founded in What would be New Mexico by the Spanish.
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Tobacco was introduced to the Virginian colonists by John Rolfe.
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She was the daughter of Chief Powhattan, she married the Englishmen John Rolfe, Their marriage brought peace between the Jamestown colonists and the natives. She died in England at age 20.
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The House of Burgesses was established as the first elective governing body in America.
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The first African slaves were brought to America and landed in Jamestown on this date.
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The Plymouth colony was founded by the Pilgrims who arrived on the Mayflower.
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The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document in the new world.
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The Dutch found Manhattan as an official Dutch province.
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King James dies and is succeded by Charles I.
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This colony was made up of the land which became much of modern New England.
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Smith was vital to the establishment of the colony of Jamestown, he also explored and mapped the Chesapeake Bay. He died in London.
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Maryland was founded by Lord Baltimore as a safe place for English Catholics in the new world.
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Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams.
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Royalists and Parliamentarians fought for control of Englands government.
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Charles I loses the English civil war and is executed for high treason, Oliver Cromwell takes over the government.
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Oliver Cromwell dies of natural causes.
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Charles II becomes king.
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Charles II granted the land for a new colony.
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New Amsterdam was taken from the Dutch by the English.
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King Philips War was started because the New England colonist wanted the Indians to give up their guns and the Indians started raiding and attacking colonists.
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Bacon's Rebellion was started because of some Indians who stole pigs from the English colonists.
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Government forces arrived from England to stop the rebellion.
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A treaty was signed with the Indians in 1678, ending the war.
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New Hampshire is founded by Charles II through a colonial charter.
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William Penn received a royal charter from Charles II. Penn promised religious freedom to settlers of Pennsylvania.
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Charles II dies and is succeded by James II
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The Glorious Revolution was the bloodless takeover from James II by William III and Mary II who co-ruled.
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William and Mary sign the English Bill of Rights, which becomes a model for the US Bill of Rights.
