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Virginia getting settled
King James gave The Virginia Company permission to sail to the new world and colonize. -
John Smith made the colony survive
John Smith was President of the colony and he forced people to work at least 4 hours a day, made the local Indians give them more food, and moved colonists away from lethal water supplies. Very few died -
First Anglo-Powhatan War
Lord De La Warr started attacking Powhatan Indians and burning down cornfields because they wouldn't give back English captives. -
Tobacco started getting plated
West Indian tobacco started being planted and was getting exporting to England. This saved Jamestown from economic destruction. -
Slavery first arrived in America
The Dutch brought over the first ship of Africans. There was a huge need for cheep labor -
The Virginia General Assembly
First meeting of the first somewhat democratic government in The New world. Colonists knew that, to make people travel to The New World, they needed to offer something that they couldn't get in England. -
Massachusetts gets help
Massasoit, a local Indian leader, led the Indians to Plymouth and taught them to use fish as fertilizer. -
Mayflower lands in Massachusetts
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Second Anglo-Powhatan War
Opitchapam attacked Jamestown plantations killing 1/3 of the colonists, including John Rolfe. -
William Penn founded Pennsylvania
William Penn formed Pennsylvania for religious tolorence -
Maryland was colonized
Sir George Calvert was awarded ability to colonize Maryland.
Made a representative assembly under his feudal system. -
Pequot raid
People from Connecticut raided a Pequot village attempting to expand onto their land. -
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Third Anglo-Powhatan War
Opechan attacked again, killing 400 colonists. Opechan was killed two years after the attack and it ended the war. -
Act of toleration passed
No man nor women has to exercise a religion they don't agree with, as long as they worship Jesus. -
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Navigation Acts
English goods had to be shipped by English ships, all foreign goods that needed to go to the colonies had to be shipped by Britain so they could tax them, and colonial products had to go to England before they were shipped elsewhere. -
South Carolina colonized
Anthony Ashley Cooper and John Locke wrote a Constitution for the colony unfortunately it did not pass -
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King Philip's War
Begins because Metacon, AKA King Philip, was trying to keep his land from the English. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon held a huge raid against the Susquehannocks in Virginia and killed a lot of them. -
The first laws against freed Africans.
They weren't allowed to own livestock. -
The French started colonization
French got to the mouth of the Mississippi River and claimed Louisiana. -
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Salem Witch Trials
John Hathorne and Jonathan Corwin began Salem witch trials. 156 had been accused, 20 were killed. Most accusers of witchcraft were women in their teens or twenties -
Florida getting settled
Spain offered to pay England to settle in Florida .
