American History timeline.

A group of English settlers arrived on Roanoke Island, present day North Carolina. The leader of the colony, John White, had to sail back to England for more supplies, but he could not return because of the conflict between England and Spain. White finally returned to the colony in 1590, but all of the inhabitants had disappeared. https://www.history.com/news/what-happened-to-the-lost-colony-of-roanoke

A group of about 100 settlers from the Virginia Company established the first English settlement in North America. During the first two years, the majority of the settlers died due to disease, famine, and conflict with the Native Americans. Later, in the 1620s, the Jamestown colony was able to expand because of the tobacco export and help from Pocahontas. https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/jamestown

In 1614, the Dutch established the trading outpost of New Netherland. Later, the Dutch West India Company founded New Amsterdam, which would become New York City. In 1664, the British sent a naval fleet to capture the colony, and the Dutch surrendered it without a fight. Most people stayed when the colony became New York, and Charles II named the colony after his brother, the Duke of York.
https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/dictionaries-thesauruses-pictures-and-press-releases/new-york-colony

In 1619, Governor George Yeardley came to the Virginia Colony and announced that the Virginia Company had voted to abolish the martial law. Because of this, Virginia established the first legislative assembly in the American Colonies, the House of Burgesses. The first assembly was held in a church in Jamestown, and it included the governor, a Council, and 22 burgesses representing 11 plantations. The Burgesses were elected representatives.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/2f.asp

The Great Migration was a period of time when the English Puritans traveled to New England, the Chesapeake, and the West Indies. The Puritans left England because of religious persecution and also for economic purposes. The first group of Puritans traveled to Massachusetts on the Mayflower and established the Plymouth colony. Later, many more people came to Massachusetts and established the Bay Colony.
http://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-great-puritan-migration/

Plymouth Colony and the Mayflower Compact

In 1620, the Pilgrims, also known as Separatists, set sail aboard the Mayflower seeking freedom from the Church of England, and they settled the Plymouth Colony. The settlers established the Mayflower Compact, which was the first self-government plan in the colonies, and it ensured a functioning social structure within the colony. The Pilgrims intended to land near the Virginia colony, but instead, the colonists landed near Cape Cod.
www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/mayflower-compact

The Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the first British settlements in present-day Massachusetts. The colony was settled by a group of 1,000 Puritan refugees from England. The colony received a charter from King Charles I, allowing it to trade and colonize in New England. The colony became one of New England's most successful colonies, but eventually, the king gained control over the colony's government, and it became a royal colony. www.britannica.com/place/Massachusetts-Bay-Colony

King Charles I granted Lord Baltimore a charter to settle the colony of Maryland as a place for persecuted Catholics to settle. Lord Baltimore died before the colony was settled, so his son, Cecil Calvert, took over the colony. In 1634, the first group of Catholics arrived in the colony. Religious conflict was strong in the colony because of the American Puritans who set out to revoke the religious freedoms of those in Maryland.
www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-settlement-of-maryland

Thomas Hooker and other colonists founded the Connecticut colony at Hartford in 1636. In 1614, Connecticut was originally settled by Dutch fur traders. They sailed up the Connecticut River and settled near present-day Hartford. Connecticut was one of the first 13 English colonies settled on the Atlantic Coast in the Americas. Connecticut was a New England colony, and it became the U.S. state of Connecticut after the war against Great Britain.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/2f.asp

The Rhode Island colony was founded by Roger Williams, who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for speaking out against government authorities and for his advocacy of the separation of the church and state. Roger Williams established the colony on his firm belief of religious freedom and the separation of church and state. He founded Rhode Island as a place where there was no religious persecution of Christians. https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/rhode-island

In 1649, the Province of Maryland passed the Toleration Act of 1649, also known as "An Act Concerning Religion." This act granted religious freedom to all Christians living in Maryland. The law made it a crime to speak irreverently about God, the Holy Trinity, or the early apostles and evangelists. Also, people could not talk about one another's religion in a disparaging way, and it provided time to honor the Sabbath.
mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/868/maryland-toleration-act-of-1649

Carolina was one of the first 13 colonies, and it was settled by supporters of King Charles II. King Charles granted land in the Carolinas to 8 English nobles. Because of the colony's easy access to trade in the West Indies, the colony concentrated on agriculture and developed plantations exporting tobacco, cotton, corn, and grain. Many people settled in the Carolinas to grow cash crops, which were grown solely for the purpose of selling.
www.landofthebrave.info/south-carolina-colony.htm

Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon in 1776 against Virginia Governor William Berkeley. Bacon raised an unauthorized militia of servants, slaves, and poor farmers to retaliate against dismissive political changes, other challenges that left Bacon out of the inner circle, and Native American attacks on the Virginia frontier. The militia rose up against Berkeley and ultimately destroyed Jamestown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_Rebellion

In 1681, King Charles granted William Penn a charter for the colony of Pennsylvania, one of the original 13 colonies. Penn established the colony as a "Holy Experiment" without a landowning aristocracy. Every male settler was granted 50 acres of land and the right to vote. The colony of Pennsylvania was also a safe haven for Penn's fellow Quakers. In 1668, the Society of Friends, also known as Quakers, was formally established.
https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/pennsylvania

In the spring of 1692 in colonial Massachusetts, girls in Salem Village claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused other local women of witchcraft. Nearly 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft and 20 were executed. The hysteria of the Witch Trials ended when the colony admitted the trials were a mistake and compensated the families of those convicted. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-salem-witch-trials-175162489/

The Great Awakening was a religious revival that influenced the English colonies in the Americas. The movement came at an important time when religion had grown old, and the idea of secular rationalism was the main focus. Christian preachers began traveling to towns and teaching the gospel. They emphasized their preachings on salvation from sins and on the idea of Christianity. Many more people were then dedicated to their religion.
https://www.history.com/topics/british-history/great-awakening

The Albany Plan was a plan of Union to unite the American colonists under a centralized government. The American colonies lacked a sense of union, and people were still loyal to the British government. However, the Albany Plan was not a plan for independence because the colonial governments were under British control. The Albany Plan of Union was never implemented because the people thought it was too extreme. https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-albany-plan-of-union-definition-summary.html

The French-Indian War was caused by a conflict between the American colonists and French over control of the Ohio Valley, and the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers. The British and the American colonies were fighting against the French and their Indian allies. The British and the French fought many battles, and then war was declared in 1756. Finally, in 1763, the war ended with the signing of the treaty of Paris. https://www.revolutionary-war.net/french-and-indian-war.html

The Proclamation of 1763 was a British proclamation after the French and Indian War to appease the Indians by checking intrusion of settlers onto the Indians' land. Following the French and Indian War, Britain tightened its control over of the colonies. The Proclamation of 1763 stopped colonial expansion westward, and citizens and colonial governments were not allowed to buy lands west of the Appalachian mountains.
https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of

Salutary Neglect was an unofficial British policy started by Robert Walpole. The purpose of the policy was to relax the enforcement of strict regulations on the American colonies. The policy went unnamed until Edmund Burke addressed Parliament saying British officials' "wise and salutary neglect" was the main reason for the commercial success in the North American colonies. Salutary Neglect allowed the colonies' trade with other countries to prosper.
www.encyclopediavirginia.org/salutary_neglect