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VA Company sends 3 ships to find passage to India and gold
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Lands at the mouth of Chesapeake bay, leave after attacks
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Lands at Jamestown, establish colony
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First Anglo-Powhatan war
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First Anglo-Powhatan war ends
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Mayflower leaves for America
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Mayflower Compact is signed
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Pequot War
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Anne Hutchinson is banished for questioning the church
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Second Anglo-Powhatan war begins
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Second Anglo-Powhatan war ends
After another defeat, the Powhatan tribe was kicked off their land, and they were decreed extinct only a few decades later -
Maryland passes Toleration act
Gives freedom to all forms of christianity (but decreed death to those who did not practice Christianity) -
Slave codes are introduced
Made blacks property, made it a crime for African slaves to learn to read, and made it so Christianity did not free slaves. -
English Farmers begin to move from the West Indies to the Carolinas
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King Philips War Begins
Native tribes unite, and under Metacom (king Philip to settlers) saw great success -
King Philips war ends
Though successful at first, disease and division lead to a British victory -
Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon leads farmers in a rebellion, almost works until Bacon dies of a fever, rebellion is crushed soon after. -
William Penn establishes Pennsylvania
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Savannah Indians try to travel to Pennsylvania, but are all killed
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New York slave revolt
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South Carolina slave revolt