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American Women History


	1607 European settlers arrive in Jamestown, Virginia


	1620 The first African slaves arrive in what would later become the United States. http://www.loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.15836/


	1620-1765 Education of women and girls in the colonial period through home- based education and/or dame schools.