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Period: 1607 BCE to
Foundation of Colonies
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Period: 1517 to
Protestant reformation
referred to as the Protestant Reformation, was a schism in Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther and continued by John Calvin, Huldrych Zwingli, and other early Protestant Reformers in 16th-century Europe -
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Va House of Burgesses
the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies. About 140 years later, when Washington was elected, the electorate was made up of male landholders. -
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Mayflower
Mayflower set sail from Plymouth, a port on the southern coast of England. Typically, the Mayflower's cargo was wine and dry goods, but on this trip the ship carried passengers: 102 of them, all hoping to start a new life on the other side of the Atlantic. -
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The English Civil War
The English Civil War was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians and Royalists over, principally, the manner of England's government. -
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King Philip War
Pometacomet's Rebellion, or Metacom's Rebellion) was an armed conflict between American Indian inhabitants of New England versus the New England colonists