13 colonies

  • First Permanent French Settlement

    First Permanent French Settlement

    The First Permanent French Settlement in North America was a fur trading post.
  • New England Confederation

    Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven colonies form the New England Confederation.
  • Navigation Acts

    Navigation Acts

    English government passed many laws to control colonial trade to ensure the colonies remained profitable.
  • Board of Trade

    Board of Trade

    An agency known as the Board of Trade was set up to handle colonial affairs.
  • Trading

    Trading

    So much trading has been going on that overseas export vale has increasing nearly four times.
  • Great Awakening

    Great Awakening

    The Great Awakening beginning in New England and New Jersey and then sweeping through the rest of the 13 colonies
  • Indigo Crop

    Indigo Crop

    The first successful Indigo crop was grown on South Carolina by Eliza Lucas.
  • Resisting Slavery

    Resisting Slavery

    100 enslaved Africans took weapons from a fire arms shop and killed several people before they were apprehended.
  • Exportation of Indigo

    Exportation of Indigo

    By 1754 South Carolina exported over a million pounds of Indigo annually.
  • Controlling the colonies

    Royal officials looked for ways to control the colonies, such as, taking away Massachusetts control over New Hampshire.