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Jan 2, 1570
Iroquois Confederacy formed
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Freedom of Conscience brought to America
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Founding of Jamestown
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Indentured Servants
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Mercantilism spurs creation of colonies
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New Netherlands Founded
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Headright system started
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House of Burgesses
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Mayflower Compact
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Pilgrims/Separatists start Plymouth
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"City on a Hill" - John Winthrop
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Great Puritan Migration
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Roger Williams Founds Providence, RI
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Harvard College Formed
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Anne Hutchinson expelled from Mass. Bay Colony (1638)
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New England Confederation
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Thomas Hobbes' Book "Leviathan" published
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Trade and Navigation Acts
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Half-Way Covenant Accepted
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King Phillip's War
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Bacon's Rebellion
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William Penn Forms Pennsylvania
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Salutary Neglect (1690's to 1760's)
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Salem Witch Trials Begin
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Trial of Peter Zenger
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James Olgethorpe forms Georgia
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Great Awakening 1730's-1740's
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Jonathan Edwards Starts Great Awakening
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George Whitefiled comes to America
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Stono Rebellion
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French and Indian War
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Albany Plan of Union
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Pontiac's Rebellion Begins
Lasts into November. Crushed by British -
Proclamation of 1763
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Paxton Boys march on Philadelphia
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Sugar Act of 1764 passed
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Quartering Act Passed
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Sons of Liberty formed
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Stamp Act Congress begins
Went from October 7 - 25 -
First act of Townshend Acts passed
More acts continued to be passed until July 2 -
Colonists begin non-importation agreements
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Phyllis Wheatley publishes her first poem
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Boston Massacre
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'Gaspee' Affair occurs
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Tea Act passed
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Boston Tea Party
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First Continental Congress
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Intolerable Acts Passed
Following the Boston Tea Party -
Second Continental Congress
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Olive Branch Petition Adopted
Adopted by the Second Continental Congress -
Thomas Paine publishes "Common Sense"
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First Crisis Paper Published
Written by Thomas Paine