1600-1700

  • Jamestown

    Jamestown
    Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in the modern-day United States.
  • Hudson River

    Hudson River
    Henry Hudson set out to find the Northwest Passage. He failed, but along the way he found the Hudson River and modern-day New York
  • Santa Fe

    Santa Fe
    The first permanent European settlement in the Southwest was established.
  • Pocahontas

    Pocahontas
    Pocahontas married John Rolfe and there was peace between the Powhatan and the colony.
  • Plymouth Colony

    Plymouth Colony
    Puritans sought out to purify the Church of England. Separatists of this group headed to the New World. They established Plymouth Colony and the Mayflower Compact
  • Indian Masscre

    Indian Masscre
    Opechancanough promised to drive the colonists out of their land and planned a surprise attack on the colonists. This killed over 350 colonists, that is one third of the amount of colonists in Virginia.
  • Massachusetts Bay Colony

    Massachusetts Bay Colony
    The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the Puritans.
  • Slavery

    Slavery
    The idea of slavery is legalized in Connecticut and spreads throughout the rest of the America's.
  • New Netherlands

    New Netherlands
    The British came and peacefully to New Netherlands, which is around modern day New York, out of Dutch control.
  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Bacon's Rebellion
    Nathaniel Bacon and others rivaled against Governor Berkeley.
  • Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania
    William Penn signed a treaty with Indians and buys land from them, this is modern-day Pennsylvania.