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Queen Elizabeth dies
Englishmen had yet to establish a permanent colony in North American. -
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King James makes peaces
Makes peace with the Spanish -
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The Virginia Company
Establishment, drew inspiration from Cortés and the Spanish conquests. Hopes to find gold and silver and other valuable tradings. -
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Jamestown settlement
Three ships were boarded by immigrants- The Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery—sailed forty miles up the James River (named for the English king) in present-day Virginia (named for Elizabeth I, the Virgin Queen) and settled on Jamestown. -
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Henry Hudson
Hudson embarked on a third voyage–this time on behalf of the Dutch East India Company. He explores North eastern North America including the Hudson River and starts to colonize it. -
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Pocahotas marries
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Virginia's first crop
John Rolfe crossed tobacco strains from Trinidad and Guiana and planted Virginia’s first tobacco crop. The colony sent its first cargo of tobacco back to England -
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The Beginning of Slavery
The first people, the Dutch, to brings African slaves to British North America, which were stolen from San Juan Bautista, a Portuguese merchant-slaver that had been making its way from the West African port town of Luanda, Angola to Vera Cruz. -
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The Great Migration
The Separatists were a group of Puritans who advocated total withdrawal from the Church of England and wanted the freedom to worship independently from English authority - the first Separatists to migrate to America were the Puritans, or Pilgrims, who traveled on the Mayflower -
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Attack on Jamestown by the Natives
Opechancanough, promised to drive the land-hungry colonists back into the sea. He launched a surprise attack and in a single day and killed over 350 colonists, or one third of all the colonists in Virginia.26 The colonists retaliated and revisited the massacres on Indian settlements many times over. The massacre freed the colonists to drive the Indians off their land. Powhatan dies in April 1622 -
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Navigation Act 1651
Aimed primarily at the Dutch, required all trade between England and the colonies to be carried in English or colonial vessels, resulting in the Anglo-Dutch War in 1652. -
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Susquehannock War 1675
The Susquehannock asked the governor if they could settle in Maryland because of a treaty of peace and friendship they had with the colony. Maryland officials worried of the conflicts between the Susquehannock and the Piscataway, they offered the them land above the Potomac’s Great Falls, a remote region that the Susquehannock found undesirable. By July 1675, Murders and robberies in Virginia and Maryland were attributed by colonists to the Susquehannock. John Washington led the attack -
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King Philip's War
Also know as the Metacom Rebellion, marked the last major effort by the Indians of southern New England to drive out the English settlers -
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William Penn
The founder of Pennsylvania Colony. -
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Captain Thomas Phillips
Master of a slave ship, bought 700 slaves, 480 men and 220 women. The voyage brought lots of death caused by diseases, being pushed over into sea, and starvation.