Colonial America timeline.

Roanoke was an English colony that was colonized by a group that was sent by Walter Raleigh that was under the command of John White. When they got there, John White would eventually return for supplies to bring back to Roanoke. When he returned to England, events in Europe were delaying his return (The Spanish Armada). When White had finally returned to Roanoke, he returned only to find out that his wife, daughter, and granddaughter were all dead and so were all the inhabitants. Source: Notes

Jamestown was the first permanent British settlement. It was settled by the Virginia company of London. The colony got of to a very rough start because of natural environment and people refusing to work. After the first winter, John Rolfe emerged as Jamestown's leader and started growing tobacco which became the first profitable export. Due to labor intensity, Indentured servants were used to work on the fields and cure tobacco. Source: Notes

Salutary Neglect was a policy that lasted from 1607 to about 1763 that allowed colonists to violate the laws associated with trade. There was no effective enforcement agencies and it was expensive to send British troops to America so the document was established. One reason it was established was so that American colonies would remain loyal to Great Britain during the time of colonial expansion. Another reason is because American Colonies would interfere with trade. https://www.landofthebrave

The House of Burgesses was the first legislature made up of elected representatives that was established at Jamestown. Property owners were the only ones who could vote to elect representatives. Later in 1624, Virginia Company's charter was revoked and Virginia then became a royal under King James I. Source: Notes

The Great Migration was a period between 1620 and 1640 when twenty thousand English men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic to settle New England. The reason behind the Great Migration was due to England being in religious turmoil. Religion in England was dictated by the monarchy and many people fled the country due to this. The Puritans hoped in establishing a pure church in the new world. Source: https://www.landofthebrave.info/great%20migration.htm

Pilgrims were the first to settle the Plymouth colony. About 100 passengers set sail aboard the Mayflower which would eventually set anchor at Cape Cod to look for somewhere to settle. A scouting party found an abandoned Wampanoag community which was killed off by a disease caused by an encounter with Europeans. The Mayflower Compact was soon established which established the foundation for the colonies government. It was the first self government plan in the colonies. Source: notes

In 1626, the New York colony was founded by the Peter Minuit and other colonists on Manhattan Island. The colony was named after the Duke of York and Albany, the brother of King Charles II of England. In 1611, Henry Hudson explored the area for the Dutch East India Company, giving the Netherlands its claim to the territory. Dutch land owners were given huge tracks of lands so they could rent out to tenant farmers. They were able to keep this land even under British control. Source: Notes

Puritans settled the Massachusetts bay colony with a charter from King Charles I. They were led by their governor John Withrop and laws were tied to the beliefs of the Puritan church. By 1643, 20,000 english settlers joined the Puritans. It became the largest and most influential New England colony eventually swallowing the Plymouth colony. Later in the 1680s, Massachusetts would become a royal colony under the rule of the king. Source: Notes

Maryland was a southern colony that was settled by Lord Baltimore in 1632. Before the colony, he was granted permission from King Charles I that he could have 100 million acres of land for persecuted Catholics to settle. The colony was also free from British rule since it was a proprietary colony. Lord Baltimore died before he cold do anything with the land so his son Cecil Calvert took control. He would offer 100 acres of land to every married couple who seetled in Maryland. Source: Notes

Rhode Island was settled by Roger Williams and his supporters in 1635. Before Rhode Island was settled, Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for speaking out against government authorities punishing religious dissention and against the confiscation of Native American land. Soon after he was banished, he settled in Rhode Island where there was no religious persecution. Soure: Notes

The colony Connecticut was founded in 1636 by Thomas Hooker and other colonists, at Hartford. In 1633, the first settlements were made in present day Hartford by a party of Dutch from New Netherlands. That same year, a trading post was set up on the Connecticut river by members of the Plymouth colony. John Oldham explored the valley and his reports would later lead to the founding of the colony by Thomas Hooker in 1636. Source: Notes

The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Toleration Act of 1649, granted religious freedom to all Christians living in Maryland. Lord Baltimore settled in Maryland in hope to create a place free of religious freedom. Maryland was a proprietary colony free of the British King, So Lord Baltimore could do what he wanted. Baltimore could not do anything before he died, therefore his son Cecil took over granting 100 acres of land to each married couple. Protestants would soon take over.S: Notes

Carolina was settled by 8 supporters of King Charles II who were given land in the Carolinas. Carolina would become a great place for growing cash crops like tobacco, indigo, and rice. These crops would be grown for the purpose of selling rather than for the farmers use. Due to these cash crops being sold at such a high rate, it required a huge labor force. By 1729, Carolina became a royal colony and was split into North and South Carolina. Source: Notes

It was the first colonial rebellion against royal control. Bacon raised an unauthorized militia of indentured servants, slaves, and poor farmers to retaliate against a series of Native American attacks on the Virginia frontier. In response, the Virginia governor gathered an army to fight back against Bacon and his men. Nathanial Bacon and his men attacked and destroyed Jamestown. The rebellion ended soon after Bacons death for dysentery. Source: notes

Pennsylvania was a middle colony that was settled by William Penn in 1682. in 1681 King Charles II granted Penn a charter for the colony of Pennsylvania. Penn would set up the colony as a place without a landowning aristocracy where every male settler received 50 acres of land and the right to vote. Pennsylvania would soon also become a haven for Quakers that were established in 1647 but not formally organized until 1668. Source: Notes

the trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. About 200 people were accused of witchcraft and 20 were executed. Later on, the colony admitted the trials were a mistake and compensated with the families that were convicted. Many Christians during this time believed that the devil could give people known as the witches power to harm others in return for their royalty. Over several months, many people were accused of being witches which then led to the Salem Trials. S: Notes

The Great Awakening was a religious movement between 1730 and 1740 where a religious revival would occur. People such as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield would attempt to bring people to the Christian faith by delivering sermons that focused on that people needed to repent for their sins before it was too late. Preachers would go out and give sermons spreading faith to get people to join Christianity. https://www.history.com/topics/british-history/great-awakening

The Albany Plan of Union was a plan made to create a unified government for the thirteen colonies. While independence was not its intent, the Albany Plan represented the first officially endorsed proposal to organize the thirteen colonies under a single, centralized government. A proposal was made by Benjamin Franklin saying that the colonies deserve to be in union and he from there, on June 19 1754 through July 10th, The Albany Plan was documented and then set into motion. https://www.britanni

The war was fought between France and Great Britain and it determined control of the colonial territory.The war began over whether the upper Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire, or part of the French Empire. Due to this, a war broke out that would ultimately end up in the British being victorious and gaining control of colonial territory. Source: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/french-and-indian-war-1754-1763-causes-and-outbreak

The Proclamation of 1763 prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. This was issued at the end of the French and Indian war to create a line that divided British Colonies and American Indian land. Due to this, settlement was closed down west of the Appalachian Mountains and all that land was off limits to colonial settlers. The British Empire would tighten up their control over the colonies because of this. Source: https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclam