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Period: 1558 to
Reign of Queen Elizabeth I
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Reign of James I began
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Jamestown founded
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Henry Hudson looked for the Northwest Passage
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John Rolfe established tobacco production in Virginia
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First Africans brought to Virginia
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First legislative assembly met in Virginia
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First Pilgrams (Separatists) founded Plymouth colony Mayflower Compact
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Violent Indian attacks in Virginia- no integrated society
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Puritans established Massachusetts Bay Colony at Boston
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Harvard founded in Massachusetts
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Roger Williams founded settlement in Rhode Island
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Period: to
English Civil War
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Last major Powhatan uprising against English settlersin Virginia
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Massachusetts public schooling law
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Execution of Charles I and beginning of Interregnum (Cromwell)
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English Restoration-Charles II
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Period: to
Passage of the Navigation Acts
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Marquette and Jolliet explored the Mississippi River
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Period: to
King Philip's War
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Bacon's Rebellion
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William Penn recieved charter for Pennsylvania
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Dominion of New England established
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Glorious Revolution in England- William and Mary replaced James II
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Rebellion against Andros in New England, Leisler's rebellion in New York
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Salem Witchcraft trials
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250,000 settlers in the English colonies