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Settlers leave England for the New World
the ships are called Constant Godspeed and Discovery
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The settlers land in Jamestown
They were funded by the Virginia Company by King James I
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The first two women arrive in Jamestown
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John Smith decided as the colony's leader
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John Smith returns to England
due to a gunpowder accident
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"Starving time"
After John Smith left the colonist went into a time of fighting with the natives, starving, and disease
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Settlers arrive from England with supplies
These settlers are what kept Jamestown alive, as the current colonist were ready to give up after the long winter.
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The introduction of tobacco
The introduction of this cash crop truly saved Jamestown by giving them an export to make money
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House of Burgesses came to be
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First African slaves brought to Jamestown
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The Pilgrims land in Massachusetts
On a ship Called the Mayflower
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Nearly half the Pilgrims in Massachusetts die
Due to disease and starvation during their first winter
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Pilgrim-Wampanoag Peace Treaty signed
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First Thanksgiving
It was to thank the Native Americans for helping them through their first successful harvest
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Roger Williams is ordered banished from Massachusetts
For critizing the colony
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Peter Minuit buys Manhattan from Native Americans
names it new Amsterdam
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Dutch West India Company gives land grants
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John Winthrop elected as governor of Massachusetts Bay colony
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John Winthrop leads 900 colonist to settle Massachusetts Bay colony
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First school founded in new Amsterdam
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First settlers for the New Maryland colony arrive in the New World
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Confrontations occur between Virginia and Maryland based on boundary dispute
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Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts
after critizing the colony
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Thomas Hooker arrive in Hartford Connecticut
He founds the first church of the territory
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The Township Act is passed in the Massachusetts Bay general court
giving towns the ability to govern themselves
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Roger Williams founds Rhode Island
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Harvard is founded
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Anne Hutchinson leaves for Rhode Island
and founds Portsmouth with William Coddington
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England passes the Navigation Act
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Anglo Dutch war begins
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Massachusetts Bay declares independence
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Maryland gets rid of the Toleration Act
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Civil war starts between Catholics and Puritans
due to Toleration act revocation
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New Amsterdam banishes Quakers forced to go to Rhode Island
forced to go to Rhode Island
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Massachusetts does not give freedom of religion to Quakers
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English take New Amsterdam from the Dutch
Rename it New York
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King Phillip’s War begins
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Nathiel Bacon leads Bacon’s Rebellion
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King William's War begins
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College of William and Mary is founded
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Massachusetts requires all Roman Catholic priests to leave the colony
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