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Jamestown becomes the first English settlement in America and is the kickstart to the American colonial era.
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The first tobacco plants being planted in America which gives rise to the tobacco industry.
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The very first slaves are brought over from Africa to Jamestown to be forced to help build the new colonies.
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Pilgrims come over from England and colonize part of Massachusettes that becomes known as the Plymouth Colony.
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The Mayflower Compact was a document written in the Mayflower which was used as a set of rules for self-governance.
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This was a time of huge population increase in the colonies. Not much was going on during this time other than more and more people coming to America and building a larger population. The population from 1620-1660 increased from an estimated 2,300 to 75,000. This begins the idea of America becoming their own established county although still under British rule.
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American then capture New Amsterdam that was previously owned by the Dutch and it is renamed New York.
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The Salem Witch trials were a set of hearing to persecute people that were accused of witchcraft. This was an intense and corrupt time because many people used these acquisitions to persecute people they didn't like but knew they were innocent but it was difficult to disprove the idea.
