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Pilgrims left England.
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England practiced mercantilism.
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The first 105 colonist sent by the London company arrived in England.
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Colonist founded Jamestown
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John Smith took control of Jamestown and built a fort around it.
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Pilgrims moved to Netherlands.
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More settlers arrived in Jamestown.
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60 colonist were sill alive.
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Dutch founded New Netherland.
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Dutch ship brought the first Africans to Virginia.
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The Mayflower left England.
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George Calvert asked King Charles І for a charter to establish a colony in America for Catholics.
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41 male passengers signed the Mayflower compact.
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Samoset walked into the colonist settlement.
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Colonist killed Powhatan leader.
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English crown canceled the company’s charter.
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Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
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Charles granted a group of Puritans a charter to settle in New England.
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A fleet of ships carrying Puritan colonist left England.
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Charles issued a charter to Calvert’s son.
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A group of 200 English Catholics came to Maryland.
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Thomas Hooker left Massachusetts to find Connecticut.
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Hooker wrote Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.
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Protestants began moving to Maryland.
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- General Court became a two-house legislature.
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General Courts of Massachusetts issued an order that a school be founded in every township of 50 families.
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Africans in Virginia were being kept in long slavery.
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Poor colonist protested the higher taxes.
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Europeans began to re-examine their world.
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Navigation Act was put into affect.
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Charles II gave much of the land between Virginia and Spanish Florida.
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English captured the undefended colony of New Amsterdam.
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English Conquest began.
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King Philip’s war erupted.
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group of former indentured servants attacked some friendly Indians.
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King Charles II granted charter to William Penn to begin a colony west of New Jersey.
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James II became king of England.
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King James passed the English Bill of Rights.
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William and Mary established Virginia.
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Enslaved Africans became the main source of labor.
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Carolina split into North and South Carolina.
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Proprietary government was overthrown.
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Crown purchased North and South America.
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20,000 enslaved Africans were living in South Carolina.
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King George II granted a charter to Oglethorpe.
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Oglethorpe founded the city of Savannah.
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The Great Awakening began.
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British government made Georgia a royal colony.
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Fighting erupted with the British military.
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Washington was defeated.
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Fighting began in Europe, leading up to the Seven Year’s War.
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Philadelphia became largest British colonial city.
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Britain received Florida.
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Pontiac’s Rebellion began.
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Britain and France signed the Treaty of Paris.
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Proclamation of 1763 issued.
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Patrick Henry presented a series of resolutions to Virginia House Of Burgesses.
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Stamp Act issued.
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First colonial boycott started in New York.
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Townshed Act passed.
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Samuel Adams wrote a letter arguing that the law violated the legal rights of citizens.
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British soldiers arrived in Boston.
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Tea Act passed by Parliament.
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Coercive Act Passed.
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Parliament replaced the Stamp Act.
