Colonial Timeline

  • Roanoke

    Roanoke
    Roanoke suffered low food and an Indian attack
  • Jamestown

    Jamestown
    104 men and boys go to Jamestown 20 die and John Ralfe claims Pocahontas as his wife
  • house of burgess

    house of burgess
    House of Burgess was the first place to hold democratically elected preident
  • Mayflower

    Mayflower
    Sailed puritan separists and the natives had the first thanksgiving
  • Great Migration

    Great Migration
    Separisists left to avoid persecution and arrived in the Americas
  • Rhode island

    Rhode island
    Was founded by Rodger Williams and he was banished for religious tolerance
  • maryland

    maryland
    The charter was granted to king Charles son
  • Connecticut

    Connecticut
    Puritans settle in Connecticut and made documents and laws
  • Maryland Tolerance Act

    Maryland Tolerance Act
    Ensured religious freedom to Christian settlers
  • New York

    New York
    The English took ownership of New Amsterdam and called it New York
  • Bacon Rebellion

    Bacon Rebellion
    The last of black and white indentured servants war
  • Pennsilvania

    Pennsilvania
    William Penn established a religious tolerance
  • Salem witch trails

    Salem witch trails
    women would get accused of being possessed or having witchcraft
  • Carolina

    Carolina
    forced to give land to American colonists
  • The Great Awakening

    The Great Awakening
    Was a religious revival in Christian history
  • Albany plan

    Albany plan
    The first proposal of many colonies under one government
  • Salutary Neglect

    Salutary Neglect
    Police from the British were laws and trade were not enforced on American colonist
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    British colonist could settle anywhere on the Atlantic coast
  • French Indian War

    French Indian War
    This 7 year war was because of French expanse to the Ohio river
  • Massachusetts Bay Colony

    Massachusetts Bay Colony
    The rightful place where the revolutionary war was held