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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 1588 | Spanish Armada defeated |
| 1606 | Year virginia recieved their charter |
| Mar 24, 1607 | date that Jamestown was founded |
| 1608 | year john Smith came to the colonies |
| 1619 | year the house of Burgesses was formed |
| 1612 | year John Rolfe cultivated tobacco |
| 1609-1610 | starving time |
| 1610 | year lord De La War came to help Jamestown |
| 1624 | year virginia charter was revoked |
| 1517 | beginning of the protestant reformation |
| 1620 | year pilgrams set sail on the mayflower |
| 1608 | year sepristists went to holland |
| 1629 | year massachsetts recieved its charter |
| 1630 | year massachusetts was founded |
| 1635 | year rodger williams convicted of a hersey |
| 1636 | year rhode island was founded |
| 1670 | Carolina founded |
| 1712 | Carolina splits into 2 |
| 1733 | georgia founded |
| 1710 | beginning of slave importation and the majority of the population of carolina was african american |
| 1650 | navigation Acts |
| 1767 | Townshend Acts |
| 1765 | Stamp Act |
| 1766 | Declatory Act |
| 1770 | Boston Massacure |
| 1773 | Boston Tea party |
| 1774 | Intolerable Acts |
| 18000-10000 years ago | last ice ages |
| 25000 | year of the land bridge |
| 250 | how many years the nomads crossed the land bridge |
| 1520 | year cortes laid seige to Tenochtitlan (noche tirste) |
| 1519 | cortes set sail from cuba to attack the aztecs |
| 1649 | Act of Toleration |
| 1634 | year maryland was founded |
| quaker up rising | 1600 |
| 1660 | year william penn took up quaker faith |
| 1681 | pensylvania founded |
| 1759 | battle of quabec |
| 1781 | battle of york town |
| 1783 | treaty of paris |
| 1754-1763 | 7 years war |
| July 4, 1776 | date the declaration of independence taken into effect |
| September 25, 1789 | year the 10 admenmendments passed |
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