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Period: Jan 1, 700 to Jan 1, 1550
Introducing the Law and Government
The Indians, from the Mississippi culture, created a government in units called chiefdoms. These people have stronger leadership than Woodland people. The towns also become bigger and last longer. Towns are protected by defensive towers/structures. -
Jan 1, 1492
Christopher Columbus Finds Trade Routes
The Italian explorer, Christopher Columbus, makes expeditions in Spain for trade routes in western Atlantic oceans. The result of this is the first contact with the natives, the American Inidians, in the Caribbean and South Americas which has a devastating impact on their culture. -
Jan 1, 1540
Smallpox Introduced and Other Deadly Diseases
Hernando de Soto explores western portions of gold. De Soto and his men visit Indian communities which probably introduced smallpox and other European diseases. -
First English settlement!
The first settlement for the English was on Roanoke Island, and the first English governor is Ralph Lane. The natives see the English as a drain of food and other good resources. -
The First Alliance for the English
Ralph Lane makes an alliance with the Chowanoke, even though Roanoke Indians warned them not to. They did this because they wanted the English to help them defeat their enemies the Tuscarora. -
The Rivalry makes an Alliance!
Spain's rivalry with the English makes Spain forge an alliance with the Tuscarora people to make the battle more interesting. -
The First Permanent White Settlement
Francis Yeardly hires a fur trader, Nathaniel Batts, to explore the Albemarle Region as a possible area of settlement. Yeardly purchases land from the Roanoke Indians but he died before settlement was established but Batts settles along the Chowan river as he makes a home which is a trading post. He trades with Indians and is probably the first white settler. -
Abandoning Land
Chowanoc and Weapemeoc have slowly abandoned their lands. Some become slaves or servants to the white settlers and some moved south with the Tuscarora. Only about 500 Indians are left in the Albemarle region. -
The Fort
A slave escapes and is serving as an architect in the construction of a Tuscarora fort near Neuse River. -
The Petition
The Tuscarora people on the Roanoke and Tar-Pamlico rivers send a petition to the government of Pennsylvania. The petition was about the seizure of their lands and the enslavement of their people by Carolina settlers. -
It's War!
The Tuscarora war opens Catecha Creek. Tuscaroras start attacking colonial settlements around New Bern and Bath. Many Indians like Tuscaroras, Neuse, Bear river, Machapunga, and other Indians join the war. -
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GO AWAY!
Tuscaroras try to send away the white settlement. The Tuscarora are upset by the practices of white traders, the capture and enslavement of Indians, and the increasing number of settlers on Tuscarora hunting grounds. -
The Battle
John Barnwell leads about 30 whites and 500 Indians to fight the Tuscarora in North Carolina at a Tuscarora fort on the Neuse river. Barnwell's troops are victorious but surprised that most of the Tuscarora's fiercest warriors are women. -
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Smallpox Again
The Native Indian population in North Carolina decreases and the Cherokee reduce by 50 percent. -
More Smallpox
Waxhaw Indians, decimated by smallpox, abandon their lands in present-day Union County. The vacated lands are taken by German, English, Scottish and Welsh Immigrants. -
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War!!
A French and Indian war is fought between the English and the French all along the frontier of America. -
More Wars!!
Typhus kills many of the refugees and Mororavians at fort Bethabara. -
Smallpox Smallpox...
Smallpox devastates the Catawba tribe, reducing the population by half. -
Betrayal!
North Carolinians serving against the Indians, allies of the French, try and enslave captives. -
Treaty
The Cherokee sign a treaty ending war with American colonists.
