-
Period: to
Spanish beginning to settle down
Encomedia System influenced with their actions -
Virginia Company
Founded by the Spanish and it hoped to find resources in the New World -
Jamestown
Englishmen founded Jamestown on terrible land that they were warned about by the natives -
New France
Quebec became New France and helped the French settle more easily -
Henry Hudson sent out to discover Northwest Passage
He was unsuccessful in his findings, but he found and claimed modern day New York for the Dutch -
Sante Fe Founded
First permanent European settlement in Spanish America -
Jamestown Saved
Close to death the people of Jamestown found hope to flourish with the introduction of tobacco -
House of Burgesses
Founded by Virginia Company -
Plymouth Colony
Founded by the first pilgrams -
Dutch West India Company
Netherlands funded this company and this helped establish colonies -
New Amsterdam
Founded by Dutch West India Company -
Mission System for Christianity Began
Spanish were beginning to convert natives -
Period: to
Great Migration
Following Charles I coronation, most puritans fled to the America's to find better hope for their lives. -
Providence Founded
Founded by Roger Williams -
Period: to
Peqout War
Led to the Massachusetts Bay to sell lots of natives into slavery -
British colonies began cultivating sugar
Led to many sugar exports and the essentiality of sugar in the colonies -
New Haven Colony
Later transformed into Connecticut -
Parliament Responds to Charles I Death
Enforced an act saying that the colonies must accept Parliaments authority -
Charleston founded
Leading point of entry for slaves coming across the seas by boat into the colonies -
Period: to
Charles II Controlling Colonies
Tightened his control over the colonies by the Navigation Acts -
King Philips War
Sassamon was killed by King Philip and he and two other men were sentenced to death, but the Wampanoags reacted by killing colonists -
Bacons Rebellion
Started over a pig but led to a crossfire leaving many dead -
Metacom Killed
Killed by a native fighting alongside English -
Bacon and Berkeley Standoff
Berkeley outed Bacon for his wrongs and challenged him to a duel -
Period: to
Glorious Revolution
William of Orange successfully took over England without bloodshed -
Massachusetts used paper bills as money
First colony to do so -
Decree of Sanctuary
Granted by Spanish king to grant freedom to slaves if they converted to Catholicism and pledged their loyalty to Spain -
Salem Witch Trials
Men and women were killed for being accused that they were witches