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Colonial ways of life
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Jamestown founded in Virginia.
A small group of English settlers came to a marshy Island on James River in 1607. They were struggling to survive because of disease and starvation - Jamestown how ever did survive. -
First Africans arrived in North America
The first Africans were brought to Virginia in 1619. They were used as slaves. Most of the labor on plantations were enslaved Africans. Wealthy farmers - people who owned plantations were in the upper class (top of society), while enslaved Africans were in the bottom classes. -
Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was one of the first English settlements in America. Puritans who were part of the Massachusetts Bay Company came and settled the colony with the help of John Winthrop, who later became the governor. The Puritans ran the Massachusetts Bay Colony based on their strict religious beliefs. -
Bacon`s Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon was a wealthy man and he had recently purchased a large tract of land near the frontier. One day his plantation got attacked by the Native Americans. He organized his own military and attacked the Natives. Govenor Berekley needed help to clam down the situation, so he created an assembly supported by the voters. They gave Bacon permisson to raise a force of 1000 troops against the Natives. The assembly gave all free men votes, and took away Berkeley´s taxes. -
City of Philadelphia first laid out by William Markham
William Penn who had suffered for his beliefs designed a grant to the persecuted under conditions of equality and freedom. In 1681 Penn sent William Markham to the City of Brotherly Love or what is now called Philadelphia. Penn instructed Markham to establish a government and send commissioners to help plot Philadelphia, which is laid out a few miles north of the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. -
James II succeeds Charles II as English monarch
King Charles II established the Navigation Acts, which required all goods that were imported or exported from the colonies to be carried on English ships, and have at least three-fourths of the crew by English. It was soon discovered that Massachusetts ignored the Navigation Acts and smuggled goods into Europe, the Caribbean, and Africa. King Charles II deprived Massachusetts of its charter and declared it to become a royal colony as punishment. Soon after James II succeeded Charles II in 1685. -
Glorious Revolution in England
James wanted insisted his divine right to rule, continually rejected advice of Parliament., and offended English people from openly practicing Catholicism. Parliament members worried if James continued acting this way, he would start another civil war. Parliament asked William and Mary to take the throne when James’s second wife gave birth to a son, which they were planning on raising Catholic. When William arrived, James fled, and William took the throne; also known as the Glorious Revolution. -
Bill of rights and Toleration act passed
The bill of rights also guaranteed freedom of speech within parliament and banned excessive bail and cruel and unusual punishments. Every english subject was guaranteed the right to petition the king and the right to a fair and impartial jury in legal cases. Because of this parliament later passed the toleration act granting freedom of worship to nearly all Protestants but not to catholics and jews.Much of the information and ideas were taken from these two acts to found the American bill of rig -
The Salem Witchcraft Trials take place in Massachusetts
Salem Witchcraft Trials Salem witchcraft trials began when a group of teenage girls accused an African servant of being a witch. Their accusations grew to include others, even the more respectable people in town. Accused witches were often spared if they confessed, or if they pointed out other community members that were also witches. Some people who were accused and denied being a witch were hanged. The original accusers only did admit after the Salem witchcraft trials that they had made up the entire story. -
Virginia created slave codes
In 1705, Virginia pulled all these different laws tighter into a slave code- a set of laws that formally regulated slavery and defined the relationship between enslaved Africans and free people. Other colonies created their own slave codes. Over time slave codes became very strict - Africans were denied the right to own property or to testify against a white person in court. By the early 1700s slavery were recognized and accepted in most colonies, most in the South colonies. -
Virginia slave code act
Prior to 1705, there were many African American indentured servants in the state of Virginia. For many years would work without pay and then be freed from his bond once the allotted time had passed. In the year 1705, the Virginia General Assembly passed a law which transformed black indentured servants into slaves. The Virginia Slave Act of 1705 condemned many men, women, and children to a lifetime of slavery, even if they were only DAYS away from being freed of their indentured status.Before th -
Small Pocks epidemic in Boston
Between April and December 1721, 5,889 Bostonians contracted smallpox, and about 850 deaths came of it that year. Smallpox, even then a very old disease, with evidence of its presence going back centuries. In Europe and the United States, bouts of smallpox were considered to be almost inevitable, and extremely feared. Epidemics killed about 30% of those infected and cause permanent disfiguration in those who survived it. After being introduced by 16th-century Europeans, smallpox is said to have -
Zenger trial for freedom of the press
John Peter zenger a German American printer worked for the New York weekly journal. He was the a key factor in gaining free press in America. Late in 1733 zenger began expressing his opinions on the governer, William Cosby in the New York journal. The governer had him arrested on November 17, 1734. After 8 months in prison zenger went on trial defended by lawyer Andrew Hamilton. Hamilton attempted to establish the precedent that a statement, even if defamatory, is not libelous if it can be prove -
Indigo first cultivated
In the early 1740s, South Carolina began to develop another cash crop called indigo - used to make blue dye for cloth. At first South Carolina tried to grow indigo without much success, but then in 1740s a girl named Eliza Lucas discovered that Indigo needed high ground and sandy soil, not the wetlands that suited rice. Indigo was a good second crop for the rice plantations. It could be grown on land unsuitable for rice and harvest was only in seasons when slaves were not busy with rice. -
Signing of "Treaty of Paris"
Royal Proclamation of 1763 The French and Indian war or better known as the 7 years war resulting from the tension for land on the frontiers. In early 1750 France's expansion into the ohio river repeatedly brought the country to armed conflict with the British colonies. The British officially declared war against France in 1756. The war lasted until February 1763 with the signing of the 'Treaty of Paris'. Much of the land "won" during the war was returned to Britain's control in trade protect Roman Cathlocism. -
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