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first four voyages to the Americas, hus adventures opened the door to a century of Spanish expeditions in the Americas.
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first permanent English settlement in America
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the Mayflower pilgrims establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony at Plymouth
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North America's first public school is founnded in Boston
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the first colonial printing press is set up in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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this is the first book to be printed in America
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Rhode Island enacts the first law in the colonies declaring slavery illegal.
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sets up the office of customs commissioner in the colonies to collect duties on goods that pass between plantations.
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Isaac publishes Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica, considered to be the most important work of the scientific revolution.
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The Boston Newsletter, this is the first American newspaper to be established.
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Benjamin Franklin uses humor to criticize the Puritan establishment in his first published work.
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The first American public library is founded in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin
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John delivers a sermon called "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God." this typifies the religious movement known as the Great Awakening.
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The Boston Tea Party mark sa violent rejection of Britain's taxation policies.
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natural law that people are born with rights and freedoms and that it is the function of government to protect those freedoms.