Time line 3

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  • Jamestown established

  • Henry Hudson Sails into modern day New York naming the river the Hudson River

  • marriage of Pocahontas to John Rolfe

  • First representative assembly, Virginia house of Burgesses

  • Plymouth Rock was identified as the first solid land the Pilgrims set foot on.

  • Puritans begin to establish settlement in Plymouth. Establish Mayflower compact

  • The first Thanksgiving celebration

  • The Indian Massacre

  • Pequot War begins

  • Harvard College is founded

  • Witchcraft is made a capital crime in English law.

  • Opchanacanough and the Powhatan Indians attack the English at Jamestown,

  • Slavery is legalized in Connecticut and recognized in the American colonies

  • Rhode Island passes the first law in the American colonies restricting slavery, making it illegal for more than ten years.

  • hree hundred British troops seize New Netherlands from the Dutch in a peaceful takeover

  • Beginning of King Philip's War

  • Dutch forces recapture the colony of New York (

  • The Indian War ends

  • Bacon's Rebellion

  • he colony of Pennsylvania is established

  • Plymouth Colony joins the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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    The Salem witch hunts

  • Jamestown is abandoned after the statehouse is burned

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    Small pox wipes out 9/10 of Indians