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Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, is established by the London Company in southeast Virginia.
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Samuel Champlain battles Iroquois after his exploration and discovery of Lake Champlain in early July and Claims Vermont for the kingdom of France.
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The marriage of Pocahontas to John Rolfe which bring 8 years of peace to Jamestown. Additionally John Rolfe is who introduces tobacco seed to the colony and begin harvesting.
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The smallpox epidemic wipes out 90% of the Native Americans in Massachusetts Bay area.
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The Puritans began to establish settlements in Plymouth. Forming the mayflower Compact, which established a government and legal structure. Site of settlement was a pervious Indian village that had been wiped out by plague.
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Roger Williams after being banished from the bay colony, creates a charter 8 years later that would be founded as a democratic party believing in the separation of the church from the state.
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Slavery becomes legal in Connecticut and recognized in the American Colonies
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Dutch Forces recapture New York (New Amsterdam) from the British, but only hold power for one year.
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Bacon's Rebellion causes the burning of Jamestown. Bacon leads the rebellion of farmers against Berkeley. Bacon dies and 23 other were executed.
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the Plymouth colony which had remained independent since its founding in 1620 joins the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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The Salem witch hunts, spurred by preaching, results in the arrest of one hundred and fifty people and death of nineteen. The trials were held in Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex counties.
