1600-1700

By Alexiachidester1999

  • Traders established Port Royal in Acadia (Nova Scotia

  • King James made peace with Spain

  • Virginia Company, established

  • Englishmen boarded three ships—the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery—sailed forty miles up the James River

  • Henry Hudson tried to discover the Northwest Passage through North America

  • Four hundred settlers arrived in Jamestown

  • Santa Fe became the first permanent European settlement

  • Pocahontas and John Rolfe get married

  • 80 percent of all English immigrants in Jamestown perished.

  • John Rolfe planted Virginia’s first tobacco crop.

  • Virginia Company established the House of Burgesses

  • Southern slavery was born.

  • The Netherlands chartered the Dutch West India Company

  • Powhatan died

  • The Dutch West India Company formed New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island

  • Peter Minuit “bought” Manhattan from Munsee people

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    friction between the English Parliament and the king.

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    Puritans began the Great Migration

  • American colonists were exporting over five hundred thousand pounds of tobacco per year.

  • both Protestant and Catholic settlers left England for the Chesapeake

  • both Protestant and Catholic settlers arrived in Maryland

  • Hooker led one hundred people and a variety of livestock in settling an area they called Newtown

  • Roger Williams created a settlement called Providence

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    Pequot War

  • John Davenport, Theophilus Eaton, and other supporters of the Puritan faith settled in the Quinnipiac River Valley

  • political and economic conflicts between Parliament and the Crown

  • Conflict erupted when Parliament called by Charles refused to grant him subsidies to suppress a rebellion in Scotland.

  • First African marriage

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    Governor Kieft’s War

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    strained relations between Charles and Parliament led to civil war in England.

  • Law was passed in Virginia that made African women “tithable."

  • New Haven Colony was officially organized

  • at least five hundred enslaved Africans in Dutch colony

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    Esopus Wars

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    Turning point for Black men and women in English colonies

  • Virginia law stated that an enslaved woman’s children inherited the “condition” of their mother

  • the handover of New Netherland to England

  • New Haven was absorbed into Connecticut

  • New York was briefly reconquered by the Netherlands

  • Charleston founded

  • three ships of colonists from Barbados arrived at the mouth of the Ashley River, where they founded Charles Town.

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    King Charles II tightened English control over North America

  • New England uprising led by the Wampanoag leader Metacom

  • Bacon’s Rebellion

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    King Philip’s War

  • James II created the Dominion of New England

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    Glorious Revolution

  • Parliament’s passage of a Bill of Rights.

  • Lords Proprietor founded the separate province of North Carolina

  • Spanish king issued the Decree of Sanctuary