1588-1776

  • Thomas Hobbes

  • Period: to

    Beginnings

  • Indentured Servants

  • Headright System

  • House of Burgesses

  • Great Puritan Migration

  • Separatists

  • Pilgrims

  • Mayflower Compact

  • William Bradford

  • City on a Hill

  • John Locke

  • Proprietary Colonies

  • Roger Williams

  • Harvard College

  • Anne Hutchinson

  • Middle Passage

  • Charter Colonies

  • New England Confederation

  • Mercantilism

  • Trade and Navigation Acts

  • Halfway Covenant

  • King Philip's War

  • Bacon's Rebellion

  • William Penn

  • Freedom of Consciences

  • Salem Witch Trials

  • George Whitefield

  • Royal Colonies

  • The Great Awakening

  • James Oglethorpe

  • Peter Zenger Trial

  • Jonathan Edwards

  • "No Taxation without Representation"

  • French and Indian War

  • Albany Plan

  • Phillis Wheatly

  • Pontiac's Rebellion

  • Proclamation of 1763

  • Paxton Boys

  • Sugar Act of 1764

  • Stamp Act of 1765

  • Quartering Act

  • Stamp Act Congress

  • Non-importation agreements

  • Townshend Acts

  • Boston Massacre

  • Gaspee Affair

  • Tea Act of 17732

  • Sons of Liberty

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Intolerable/Coercive Acts

  • First Continental Congress

  • Second Continental Congress

  • Salutary Neglect

  • Virtual Representation

  • Olive Branch Petition

  • Loyalists/Tories

  • Thomas Paine/Common Sense

  • The Crisis Papers