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The Virginia Company founds a colony at Jamestown.
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John Rolfe begins growing tobacco in Virginia.
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The first representative government in North America is created when the House of Burgesses meets. The first slaves arrive in Virginia.
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The Mayflower ship transported 102 English Puritans and Separatists, the Pilgrim Fathers, from a site near the Mayflower Steps in Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts, a long journey of 66 days
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1622-1624 The Powhatan Wars, battles and conflicts in Virginia between colonists and American Native Indians
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1624 Virginia was made a royal colony
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Puritans formed the Massachusetts Bay Company and many Puritans continued to settle in the region
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In the spring of 1630, John Winthrop led a fleet of 11 vessels and 700 passengers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Great Migration of thousands of English people to the Americas that took place between 1620 and 1640. Many came as Indentured Servants
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Rhode Island was settled by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
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The Pequot War - Native Indians of Connecticut and Rhode Island were defeated by the colonists
