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Jamestown becomes the first English Settlement in North America in what would later be Virginia -
The Pilgrims, a group of Puritans fleeing religious persecution in England land in Plymouth, Mass.
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First African American slaves arrive in the New World aboard a trading ship flying the Dutch flag.
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The Pequot War was a short war fought between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of other New England Native American tribes and colonists in Mass. It ended in a decisive victory for the colonists.
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New Sweden become incorporated in the Dutch colony of New Netherland
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New York and New Jersey are established as new colonies in the New World.
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A rebellion in the colony of Virginia after the people were denied to permission to obtain additional Native American land
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The English Bill of Rights is passed that will later be used as a model for our own Bill of Rights.
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A series of events in which hundred were publicly tried of witchcraft. Many were hung in public executions which were crowd-drawing spectacles.