1600 - 1700

By Jaydon McAdams

  • Jamestown

    Jamestown
    Americas first colony was founded in Virginia.

  • slavery

    slavery
    A Dutch ship brought 20 African slaves into Jamestown.

  • house of Burgesses

    house of Burgesses
    The House of Burgesses was the first democratically-elected legislative body in the British American colonies.

  • Massachusetts Bay

    Massachusetts Bay
    Settled in by a group of Puritan refugees from England.

  • First Navigation Act

    First Navigation Act
    A series of laws designed to limit English trading ships.

  • king philip's war start

    king philip's war start
    An armed conflict between indigenous inhabitants of New England and New England colonists and their indigenous allies.

  • bacon's rebellion

    bacon's rebellion
    A rebellion by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon

  • king philip's war end

    king philip's war end
    An armed conflict between indigenous inhabitants of New England and New England colonists and their indigenous allies.

  • king william's war

    king william's war
    A war between France and England for supremacy in North America

  • salem witch trials

    salem witch trials
    In colonial Massachusetts over 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft and 20 were killed