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Creation of Jamestown
The first permanent English settlement in the New World, Jamestown is established in what is now known as Virginia -
House of Burgesses
This is the first House of Representatives meeting in American history -
Plymouth Colony
Plymouth Colony was first established by the English after coming to the New World on the Mayflower. -
Pennsylvania
William Penn established the colony of Pennsylvania, he brought the Quaker movement to the. area. -
New Amsterdam was changed to New York
The British forces sieged and captured the Dutch city of New Amsterdam , and renamed it New York -
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Small Pox epidemic
An epidemic that ran rampant through the Natives in Massachusetts, it killed nearly ninety percent of the natives.
