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King James gave The Virginia Company permission to sail to the new world and colonize.
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John Smith was President of the colony and he forced people to work at least 4 hours a day, made the local Indians give them more food, and moved colonists away from lethal water supplies. Very few died
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Lord De La Warr started attacking Powhatan Indians and burning down cornfields because they wouldn't give back English captives.
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West Indian tobacco started being planted and was getting exporting to England. This saved Jamestown from economic destruction.
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The Dutch brought over the first ship of Africans. There was a huge need for cheep labor
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First meeting of the first somewhat democratic government in The New world. Colonists knew that, to make people travel to The New World, they needed to offer something that they couldn't get in England.
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Massasoit, a local Indian leader, led the Indians to Plymouth and taught them to use fish as fertilizer.
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Opitchapam attacked Jamestown plantations killing 1/3 of the colonists, including John Rolfe.
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William Penn formed Pennsylvania for religious tolorence
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Sir George Calvert was awarded ability to colonize Maryland.
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People from Connecticut raided a Pequot village attempting to expand onto their land.
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Opechan attacked again, killing 400 colonists. Opechan was killed two years after the attack and it ended the war.
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No man nor women has to exercise a religion they don't agree with, as long as they worship Jesus.
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English goods had to be shipped by English ships, all foreign goods that needed to go to the colonies had to be shipped by Britain so they could tax them, and colonial products had to go to England before they were shipped elsewhere.
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Anthony Ashley Cooper and John Locke wrote a Constitution for the colony unfortunately it did not pass
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Begins because Metacon, AKA King Philip, was trying to keep his land from the English.
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Bacon held a huge raid against the Susquehannocks in Virginia and killed a lot of them.
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They weren't allowed to own livestock.
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French got to the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed Louisiana.
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John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin began Salem witch trials. 156 had been accused, 20 were killed. Most accusers of witchcraft were women in their teens or twenties
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Spain offered to pay England to settle in Florida .
