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Jamestown: A Brief Summary
1607 Jamestown Va founded Virginia company founded by Captain John Smith.
1620 Mayflower Compact Plymouth founded
1619 House of Burgesses founded
1628 John Winthrop
1622 John Rolfe
1630 MA Bay Colony founded by John Winthrop
1632 Pequot war starts

1634 Maryland Colony founded

1636 Thomas Hooker and Roger Williams expelled

1637 Anne Hutchinson expelled

1638 Pequot war ended
1651 Navigation Act
1649 Maryland Toleraction Act

1639 Fundamental Orders of CT

1675 King Philips War
1660 Stuart Restoration
1662 Halfway Covenant
1676 William Berkeley and Nathaniel Bacon, Bacon’s Rebellion
1680 Pueblo Revolt
1681 William Penn – Pennsylvania
1690 Two Treatises on Government
1686- 1689 Dominion of New England
1692- 1697
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