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Discovery of Tobacco in Virginia
Discovery of tobacco flourished in Virginia causing the want for more land to intensify for settlers. English tobacco planters coveted Indian fields because they had been cleared and were ready to be planted. -
Plymouth Colony is founded
The Plymouth Colony was the first English settlement where religious separatists known as "pilgrims" that crossed on the Mayflower settled. -
Migration of people to Jamestown
8,000 English men, women and children had migrated to Jamestown but only 1,132 had survived. Majority of the ones that lived were in a "sickly and desperate state." -
Bankruptcy of Virginia Company
Virginia Company declared bankruptcy in which Virginia was converted from a joint-stock company to a royal colony controlled by the government. -
Pequot War in New England
Competition over control of trade and land. Fought by the Pequot people against coalition of English settlers from the Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut and Saybrook colonies and their Native Allies. As a result, 700 Pequots had been killed or taken into captivity. -
Trial of Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson was charged for leading Scripture meetings in a way that is not fit for a woman and trying to usurp the powers of ministers. She was then excommunicated from the church and banished for having unorthodox religious views. -
Toleration Act in Maryland
After King Charles l death, colonists feared the loss of religious freedom. This act was made to ensure religious freedoms to Christian settlers of different denominations who settled in Massachusetts. -
Bacon Rebellion
Falling tobacco prices, rising taxes, and crowds of landless freed servants sparked this rebellion. Frontier vigilantes retaliated by killing two dozen Indians. For revenge, Indians attacked frontier settlement. -
King Philip's War in New England
Known as the First Indian War, it was seen as an attempt to drive out colonists and decimate the Narragansett, Wampanoag and many smaller tribes paving the way for English settlements. -
Salem Witch Trials
A series of investigations and persecutions that caused 19 convicted "witches" to be hanged and many other suspects to be imprisoned in Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.