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Virginia Company
approved by James I and formed -
Virginia Founded
1st successful at Jamestown by London Company -
Quebec Established
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Hudson claims New York for Dutch
failed to find northwest passage -
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Smallpox Pandemic
as much as 90% of native population die -
John Rolfe Tobacco
John Rolfe brings tobacco to VA. -
John Rolfe marries Pocohantas
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80% of settlers in Jamestown perish
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1st shipment of tobacco back to England
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Slaves, Women, House of Burgesses***
Women arrive, Dutch ship brought 20 slaves and exchanged for supplies, HOB est laws based on morals, church attendance -
Massachucets Founded
100 Puritan men and women arrive in Plymouth, mayflower compact 1st form of constitution, Plymouth company -
Good Friday Assault
Surprise attack 321 die, 1/4 of colony -
New Hampshire Founded
John Wheelright, colony planned around fishing -
Virginia becomes first Royal Colony
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Dutch Families arrive
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Dutch buy Manhattan
Minuit bought Manhattan from natives, didn't want to make the same mistakes as Spain -
Massachucets Bay settled
"City upon a Hill" John Winthrop -
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Great Migration
1000's of English flock to America -
Maryland Founded
Lord Baltimore, refuge for Catholics -
Rhode Island Founded
roger Williams rejected by mass puritains for belief of separation of church and state, sewer of new england -
Conneticut Founded
Thomas hooker formed colony after being rejected from mass for believing people should govern self not just Gods will -
Deleware Founded
New Sweden Co and Peter Minuit -
Marylands House of Assembly formed
representatives chosen by people -
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English Civil War
Charles I executed, Charles II exiled, , est republican Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell -
Maryland's House of Assembly Divided
Divides into upper and lower house, toleration acts involving religion -
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SISTEMA DE CASTA
Cast system based on purity of blood established for Spain in new world. Peninsulares- Ibearian-born, crillos- new world born Spaniards, Mestizos- mixed Spanish and native mix -
Navigation Act of 1651
compelled merchants to ship goods directly to England on English ships. Parliament wanted to bind colonies closer to England. -
Carolinas Founded
Virginia emigrants and 8 nobels with a royal charter -
New Amsterdam largest slave population
500 at least -
Navigation act of 1660
certain materials can only be shipped to England or British colony -
Slave Law in VA established
children born to slave mother were automatically slaves -
halfway convenant
Mass extends voting rights to church members' children who had not yet exp conversion -
Staple Act
All European goods must pass through England 1st before going to colonies except salt win horses -
New York Founded
King gifts the area of New Amsterdam to his brother, Duke of York, most Dutch stay -
New Jersey Founded
Lord Berkely and Sir George Cartel, freedom of religion -
John Lockes Fundamental Constitution of Carolina
religious freedom, low property requirements for voting -
Plantation Duty Act 1673
tax on goods shipped btw colonies -
Bacon's Rebellion
Dog tribe takes pigs from Thomas Mathews plantation -
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King Phillips War
Indians war against colonists in NE -
New Hampshire becomes royal colony
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Slavery changes
new laws defined slavery as a lifetime status and is inherited by child -
Pennsylvania Founded
William Penn rcv royal charter as payment for debt to father, created a Quaker refuge -
8000 Quakers in PA
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New York becomes royal colony
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New England Colonies together
NY, MASS, RI, NJ together for trade, crackdown on smuggling -
Sir Edmund Andros Gov of NE
appointed by king after he combined conn, mass, ny, ri, nh, nj into "new England" in 1686. Does not answer to any elected gov, colonist do not like him -
Glorious Revolution in England
King James II overthrown, daughter Mary and William of Orange take over, bloodless, placed parliament over the crown -
VA bans interacial marriages
stood until the 1970s -
MASS becomes royal colony
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Massachucets becomes Royal Colony
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VA Slaves lose trial rights
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Betty Parris and Abigail Williams have fits
believed they were brought on by witches, but probably just wanted attention and bored -
Salem Witch Trials
2 dozen accused -
Salem Wich Trial outcome
140 indicted, 50 confessed, 26 convicted, 20 executed -
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Salem Witch Trials
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Spanish King issues Decree of Sanctuary
Granted freedom to slaves who fled to Florida and converted to Catholicism -
Navigation Act of 1696
created a court to enforce navigational acts -
All Colonies have bicameral legislature