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Plymouth
Joint-Stock Company, sent 100 men to establish colony in Maine, failed within a year, made no efforts to found a permanent colony. -
Quebec establishment
Traders established Port Royal in Acadia (Nova Scotia) in 1603 and launched trading expeditions that stretched down the Atlantic coast as far as Cape Cod. The needs of the fur trade set the future pattern of French colonization. Founded in 1608 under the leadership of Samuel de Champlain, Quebec provided the foothold for what would become New France. -
Henry Hudson's travel
Sharing the European hunger for access to Asia, in 1609 the Dutch commissioned the Englishman Henry Hudson to discover the fabled Northwest Passage through North America. He failed, of course, but nevertheless found the Hudson River and claimed modern-day New York for the Dutch. There they established New Netherland, an essential part of the Dutch New World empire. -
James I decree I
Ruling by divine right -
Santa Fe establishment
Santa Fe, the first permanent European settlement in the Southwest, was established in 1610. Few Spaniards relocated to the Southwest because of the distance from Mexico City and the dry and hostile environment. Thus, the Spanish never achieved a commanding presence in the region. By 1680, only about three thousand colonists called Spanish New Mexico home. -
James I decree II
Did away with Parliament -
Tobacco in Virginia
John Rolfe planted sweeter tobacco in Virginia, became cash crop -
First of all
Women arrived at Americas
First Africans arrived
Examples of Laws passed -
The decades of 1620s
Native Americans' conflicts and the first African slaves arriving in Americas -
Plymouth colony
100 Men and Women set sail on Mayflower, landed at Plymouth Rock -
Good Friday Assault
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Dutch settlement
the first permanent Dutch settlement gets organized -
Maryland established
Settlers arrived in 1634, bought land from Native Americans. -
Connecticut
formed colony of Connecticut -
Economical turning point
Profit started flowing to Amsterdam from colonies -
Massachusetts Bay colony
Body of Liberties, contain 100 liberties -
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First revolution
Puritan Revolution period -
Peter Stuyvesant
New Amsterdam in disarray, grew and became quite successful. -
John Locke's Constitutions
Religious freedom
Fairly low property requirements for voting
120 detailed paragraphs
rejected by most -
Second revolution
Monmouth's Rebellion -
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Third revolution
Glorious Revolution -
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Glorious Revolution
Overthrow King James II
Abolished absolutism
Establish constitutional monarchy
English of Bill of Rights