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The first permanent english settlement in the new world is founded.
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to attract more colonists and search for gold, 50 acres of land offered to immigrants who also sponsored indentured servants to Virginia
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The House of Burgess meets making it the first legislative assembly in the New World
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The Mayflower ship brought over pilgrims specifically separatists (wanted to separate from England) to find religious peace.
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The dutch establish the colony of New Netherlands which encompasses parts of Delaware, New York and New Jersey
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Puritans establish this city in Massachusetts, governed by John Winthrop.
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Indians kill New England fur trader, Connecticut and Massachusetts soldiers attack Pequots and win. Connecticut River Valley opens for settlement and trade.
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First "constitution" in America; powerful government came from the people, didn't have to be church member to vote
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This act was established to make sure that the rights of Catholics were protected, Maryland's government passed the Toleration Act of 1649. The act made it illegal to prevent any Christian from practicing his or her religion and imposed fines for those who broke the law.
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This Act required that all European goods that were to be sent to any of the colonies (including the 13 original) had to go through England first, in order to make sure that all foreign imports to the colonies were paying proper taxes on those goods.
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A Puritan church document; that in 1662 allowed partial membership rights to persons not yet converted into the Puritan church; It lessened the difference between the "elect" members of the church from the regular members
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It was the Native-American's last major effort to drive the English colonists out of New England
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This rebellion led by Nathanial Bacon was in response to American Indians and the colonial government in the Virginia as the American Indians stole from the colonists
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New England consists of the present day states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, New Jersey, and New York. At the time they were mostly British colonies.
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Mass hysteria in Salem, Massachusetts people were put on trial and many were hung after being accused of being a witch or participating in which craft.
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This was a major part of the triangular slave trade, in which multiple deaths of slaves occurred.
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religious revival which deemphasized the higher authority of church doctrine and instead put greater importance on the individual and his or her spiritual experience
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French expansion into the Ohio River valley repeatedly brought France into armed conflict with the British colonies. In 1756–the first official year of fighting in the Seven Years War–the British suffered a series of defeats against the French and their broad network of Native American alliances.