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Jamestown Established
First permanent English colony -
Quebec Established
First French Colony -
Virginia's Tobacco Cash Crop
John Rolfe grows a better tobacco crop than previous ones -
Important Year for Virginia
House of Burgesses created, women arrive, first Africans arrive -
Plymouth Established
Mayflower lands at Plymouth Rock December 1620, after the winter colonists create Mayflower Compact and found colony -
New Amsterdam Established
First Permanent Dutch Colony, Colonized with families -
Virginia Becomes Royal Colony
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Massachusetts Bay Established
Puritan colony -
Maryland Established
Settlers bought land from natives -
Rhode Island Established
Roger Williams founds Rhode Island in 1636 after being banished from Massachusetts Bay, called the "Sewer of New England" -
New Hampshire Established
Planned colony, granted to John Mason -
Maryland House of Assembly
Divided into upper and lower houses in 1650 -
Connecticut Established
Thomas Hooker leaves Massachusetts Bay and convinces 100 others to come with him, not officially recognized as a colony by the king until 1662 -
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Puritan Revolution
James I believing in his divine right to rule, does away with parliament, threatens to drive out Puritans -
Navigation Act of 1651
Aimed at Dutch, forced shipping to be done exclusively through English ships -
Navigation Act of 1660
Limits what can be shipped -
Staple Act of 1663
All European goods must pass through England before they are sent to colonies -
Delaware Established
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New Jersey and New York Captured
Taken from Dutch, both later became Royal Colonies -
Carolina Established
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Plantation Duty Act of 1673
Taxed shipping between colonies -
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Bacon's Rebellion
Supposedly started over a pig, Nathaniel Bacon attacks natives with a militia -
Pennsylvania Established
William Penn cashes in a debt owed to his father by the king to obtain land in the New World -
Monmouth's Rebellion
James Scott, illegitimate son of Charles II attempts to overthrow James II, but defeated -
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Council of New England
Organization that tightened control over colonies, said colonists left their rights in England -
Glorious Revolution
Bloodless coup to overthrow King James II -
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Salem Witch Trials
Started over two girls' fits, people began to be accused for anything, slowed down by 1693 -
Navigation Act of 1696
Court enforced other acts