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| Parliament passes Navigation Acts to ensure that colonies trade withing the emerging English empire |
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| Dutch settlers in New Netherland surrender to the English, who rename the colony New York |
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| Bacon's Rebellion occurs in Virgian |
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| William Penn founds Pennsylvania as a "holy experiment" in which diverse groups of people all live together honogeneously |
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| La Salle claims Louisiana country for France |
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| England revokes the Massachusetts Bay Colony charter and eliminates representatives assemblies in all colonies east of New Jersey |
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| The Crown establishes the Dominion of New England |
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| The English drive James II from the throne in the Glorious Revolution and replace him with William and Mary |
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| Massachusetts successfully rebels against the Dominion of New England; Leisler's Rebellion occurs in New York: Coode's uprising disrupts Maryland's governement |
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| Witchcraft scare in Salem, Massachusetts, results in the execution of 20 women and men |
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| Parliament prohibits the export of woolen products from America |
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| Parliament passes the Molasses Act, which requires colonies to pay a high duty on molasses or rum imported from the foreign West Indies |
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| George Whitefield begins preaching tours that turn local revivals into the Great Awakening |
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| Ohio Company obtains from the British government a 200,000-acre grant to western territory |
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| Parliament passes the Iron Act, which prohibits colonists from expanding the production of finished iron or steel products |
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| Albany Congress draws up a plan to unite the 13 colonies under a single government; George Washington defends Fort Necessity and helps to bring on the Seven Year's War |
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| British forces under General James Wolfe conquer Quebec; warfare erupts along the southern frontier between the Cherokee Nation and English settlers |
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| Treaty of Paris ends the Seven Year's War |
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