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Colonial Era

By haleyann

  • The 1st English colony is founded in Jamestown, Virginia

  • Virginia's House of Burgesses is formed and becomes the first legislative assembly in English North American history,

  • The Mayflower Compact is signed n Provincetown Harbor, Massechussets

  • The Pilgrim Separatists arrive at Plymouth, Massechussets

  • Native american attacks kill 1/3 of the English settlers in Virginia.

  • The Dutch create the colony of New Netherland

  • Roger Williams founds the colony of Rhode Island, which was the first English colony that granted total religious tolerance

  • The first Swedish colonists arrive in Delaware