1600-1700

  • Spain colonizes the new world.

    Spain settles the new world and dominates the native people.
  • France settles Nova Scotia

    French fur traders settle Parts of Canada and set up a large fur trading company
  • Jamestown

    Jamestown was settled by the English.
  • Hudson claims New York

    The Hudson River was discovered and New York was claimed for the Dutch.
  • House of Burgesses

    Established by the Virginia Company
  • New England

    established by the English
  • Dutch explorer, Peter Minuit, bought Manhattan from the native.

  • Maryland Established

    Protestant and Catholic settlers left England for the Chesapeake
  • Rhode Island

    Established by Roger Williams after being exiled from Massachusetts
  • England is a republic

    Charles is executed and Oliver Cromwell becomes protectorate
  • Bacon's Rebellion

  • French Protestants settle the new world due to persecution.

    France banned all non-catholics, so protestants fled to the New World
  • Decree of Sanctuary

    granted freedom to slaves fleeing the English colonies if they converted to Catholicism and swore an oath of loyalty to Spain.