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1607 James Town
Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, is established by the London Company in southeast Virginia. -
1619 House of Burgess and Slaves
The first representative assembly in America Meets for the first time in Virginia. Slaves are also brought to Jamestown for the first time -
The Mayflower
The Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts is established by Pilgrims from England. The mayflower compact is signed by 41 male passengers before leaving the ship. -
Mercantilism
The nations wealth and power needed to expand so the export of goods started to happen -
Navigation Acts 1651-1660
Required all trade between England and the colonies to be carried in English or colonial vessels -
New Amsterdam.....
English seize New Amsterdam (city and colony) from the Dutch and rename it New York -
John Locke Two Treaties of Goverment
Helped the colonist understand universal rights and freedom from the English crown
