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Jamestown
The first successful English settlement.
The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America. -
Slavery begins in Virginia
Slavery begin to get worse because of the crop called tobacco that the planters are starting to grow so it led to more importation of slaves to Virginia. -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Puritans wanted a place where they could express their religion. -
Boston
Boston was founded in 1630 by English Puritans who fled to the new land to pursue religious freedom. -
Rhode Island Colony
One of the colonies to declare independence they started in 1636 and established Religious Freedom and the Separation of Church and State. -
King Phillip's War
The first war the colonist fought without Great Britain.
The war started because the colonies wanted more and more land.
King Phillip head was placed on a spike and displayed at Plymouth colony. -
Bacon's Rebillion
A rebellion held by Virginia settlers and led by Nathaniel Bacon because William Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native Americans out of Virginia.
Bacon then burns down Jamestown
Bacon dies of body lice and dysentery ; his body needs to be burned .
Slavery turned for the worse in Virginia after this happened. -
Pueblo Revolt
A revolution against Spanish religious, economic, and political institutions imposed upon the Pueblos. -
The Glorious Revolution
This Revolution permanently established Parliament as the ruling power of England.
King James the 2 was overthrown because he was trying to force his religion.
King James 2 was replaced by his Protestant daughter and her Dutch husband. -
Salem Witch Trials
A group of young girls accused women of being a witch leading to them being hung.
Then the witch test happened and they were impossible to pass causing more people to be killed because the village was accusing all these people of being witches.