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Pilgrims left England.
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Colonial America
- All of the dates labeled October 17.18, and 19 are fictitious, excep for the year.
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English merchants ask King James I for the right to establish a settlement
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The first 105 colonists sent by the London company arrived in America.
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Jamestown was found.
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John Smith took control of Jamestown and built a fort around it
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Dutch founded New Netherland.
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Dutch ship brought the first Africans to Virginia.
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Virginia's assembly was the first colonial legislature in North America.
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Mayflower leaves England.
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George Calvert asked King Charles І for a charter to establish a colony in America for Catholics.
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Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock.
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41 male passengers signed the Mayflower compact.
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Samoset walked into the colonist settlement.
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Colonists killed the Powhatan leader
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English crown canceled the company’s charter.
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1629-1640 The Great Migration took place.
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A fleet of ships carrying Puritan colonist left England.
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Charles issued a charter to Calvert’s son.
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A group of 200 English Catholics came to Maryland.
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Thomas Hooker left Massachusetts to find Connecticut.
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Hooker wrote Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.
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Protestants began moving to Maryland.
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General Court became a two-house legislature.
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General Courts of Massachusetts issued an order that a school be founded in every township of 50 families
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Africans in Virginia were being kept in long slavery.
the mid 1600's -
1650-1696 Parliament passed a series of Navigation Acts.
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Navigation Act was put into affect.
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Charles II gave much of the land between Virginia and Spanish Florida.
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English captured New Amsterdam
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English Conquest began.
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Tension arose between New England and Wampanoag.
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King Philip’s war erupted.
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Group of former indentured servants attacked some friendly Indians.
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King Charles II granted charter to William Penn to begin a colony west of New Jersey.
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Duke Of York sold Penn a region to the south of Pennsylvania.
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James II became king of England.
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James II united the northern colonies under one government.
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King James passed the English Bill of Rights.
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Community conflicts in New England involved witchcraft trials.
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Massachusetts bay colony expanded to include the Pilgrims Plymouth Rock.
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William and Mary established Virginia.
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Enslaved Africans became the main source of labor.
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Carolina split into North and South Carolina.
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Proprietary government was overthrown.
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The Carolinas became royal colonies.
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Ministers began holding revivals.
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1730's and 1740's The Great Awakening began.
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King George II granted a charter to Oglethorpe.
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Oglethorpe founded the city of Savannah.
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Officials arrested John Peter Zenger for printing false statements.
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Molasses Act put into affect.
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France and Great Britain struggled for control of territory in North America.
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Georgia became a royal colony.
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Fighting erupted with the British military.
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Washington was defeated.
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Fighting began in Europe, leading up to the Seven Year’s War.
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Britain received Florida.
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Pontiac’s Rebellion began.
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Britain and France signed the Treaty of Paris.
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Proclamation of 1763 issued.
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Parliament passed the Sugar Act, which set duties on molasses and sugar imported to colonist
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Patrick Henry presented a series of resolutions to Virginia House Of Burgesses.
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First colonial boycott started in New York.
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Stamp Act issued.
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Delegates from nine colonies met in New York.
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Parliament replaced the Stamp Act.
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Townshed Act passed.
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Samuel Adams wrote a letter arguing that the law violated the legal rights of citizens.
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The Boston Massacre took place.
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Tea Act passed by Parliament.
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The Boston tea party took place.
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The Coercive Act was passed
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Delaware seperates from Pennsylvania.
