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Mayflower Compacts
1. Jamestown, 1607

2. First Africans brought to Virginia, 1619

3. Mayflower Compact, 1620

4. Great Migration of Puritans to Massachusetts, 1630s and 1640s

5. Roger Williams established Rhode Island, 1636

6. William Penn established Pennsylvania, 1681

7. Salem witch trials, 1692

8. James Oglethorpe established Georgia, 1732

9. Jonathan Edwards sparked the Great Awakening, 17349

10. The French and Indian War, 1754-63

11. Proclamation of 1763

12. Stamp Act, 1765-66

13. Declaratory Act, 1766

14. Townshend Acts, 1767

15. Boston Tea Party, 1773

16. First Continental Congress, 1774

17. Lexington and Concord, 1775

18. Second Continental Congress, 1775

19. Thomas Paine published Common Sense, 177610

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