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1400
1400
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Roanoke Island is settled.
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Roanoke Island is abandoned.
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Jamestown is settled.
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House of Burgesses is first legislature in North America.
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First enslaved Africans are brought to North America.
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Separatists on the Mayflower settle at Plymouth.
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Puritans under John Winthrop settle the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut becomes first written constitution in America.
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William Penn is given land, which becomes Pennsylvania.
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Peter Stuyvesant surrenders New Netherland to the English.
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Nathaniel Bacon attacks Native American villages and Jamestown.
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Georgia is set up for debtors and poor people to make a fresh start.