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Port Royal in Acadia, or Nova Scotia, was established by French traders.
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King James I approved the Virginia Company named after the Virgin Queen, Elizabeth.
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The first permanent English colony was established.
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Quebec was established by Samuel de Champlain.
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The first permanent European settlement, Santa Fe, was established.
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A religious war that originated in Germany.
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The Virginia Company established the House of Burgesses.
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The Dutch sold twenty slaves to the Virginian colonists.
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Three ships of Puritans sailed to the New World and founded the Plymouth Colony.
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The Dutch chartered the West India Company.
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In 1629 King Charles I granted Massachusetts Bay a charter, people then settled there in 1630.
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Thomas Hooker led a group of Puritans into the city of Hartford and established Connecticut.
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Roger Williams was exiled from Massachusetts and founded Providence, which is now called Rhode Island.
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A war between some of the British colonies and the Pequot Indians.
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Five hundred Puritans left Massachusetts Bay and migrated to what was called the New Haven Colony.
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A war between New Netherland and the Lenape Indians.
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A war in England that started over disputes on how England should be governed, and what religion England should proclaim.
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Another couple wars between New Netherland and the Lenape Indians.
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The Duke of York granted two pieces of land on either side of the Hudson river to two different men and named them East and West Jersey.
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The New Haven Colony had lost its power and wealth and was absorbed into Connecticut.
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Charleston was founded in 1670 and was the beginning of the colony of South Carolina.
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Bacon's Rebellion was started because some people came to collect a debt, and when Thomas Matthew refused to pay, they stole a pig.
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A war between the Native Americans in the New World and New England.
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King Charles II granted William Penn the Providence of Pennsylvania.
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The British parliament offered James II's throne to Prince William of Holland and his bride, Mary.
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The size of Carolina had made it difficult for the Lord Proprietors to maintain control, so they split the territory and created North Carolina.
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Fifteen women and six men were tried and executed on the claims of them being participants of witchcraft. Five others died in imprisonment.
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The Spanish king issued the decree that would allow slaves to be considered free men if they become a part of the Spanish and converted to Catholicism.