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Port Royal in Acadia (French)
French colonization developed through investments made by private trading companies. The Port Royal of Acadia launched trading expeditions that stretched down the Atlantic coast all the way to Cape Cod. Fur trade set the future for French colonization. -
Virignia Company
The Virginia Company was established. It hoped to find gold and solver and other valuables in the New World. -
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Jamestown
In April 1607, Englishmen boarded three ships and sailed forty miles up the James River. The peninsula chosen for Jamestown was upriver and out of sight from Spanish patrols.
1614: John Rolfe and Pocahontas married.
1616: John Rolfe planted sweeter tobacco.
1617: First cargo of tobacco was sent to England.
1619: Women arrived, and the House of Burgesses was established. -
Quebec (French)
Quebec was founded in 1608 and was under the leadership of Samuel de Champlain. Quebec became what would be New France. -
New Netherlands (Dutch)
Henry Hudson found the Hudson River and claimed modern day New York for the Dutch. Here, New Netherlands was established. -
Santa Fe Established (Spanish)
Santa Fe was the first permanent European settlement in the Southwest. Not many Spaniards moved to Santa Fe because of its distance from Mexico and its environment. As a result, the Spanish did not take control or create a presence in the area. By 1680, only three thousand colonists lived in the region. -
First Slaves
The first 20 slaves were brought to Jamestown, Virginia from a Dutch ship. -
Dutch West India Company
The Dutch West India Company was chartered and it established colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and North America. -
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New Amsterdam
1626: Eleven company-owned slaves were brought to New Amsterdam to build the city.
1641: The colony's first African marriage occurred.
1660: New Amsterdam had the largest urban slave population on the continent. -
Slavery Takes a Turn
New laws were made that made it legal to enslave people of African descent for life. Strict racial barriers were made.
A Virginia law stated that an enslaved woman's child would inherit the mother's "condition" of slavery. -
New Jersey & New York
King granted New Netherlands to his brother -- Duke of York. Also, New Jersey was ceded to Sir George Carterel and Lord Berkely. -
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Pennsylvania
1666: George Fox -- Society of Friends. Quakers made an uprising.
1681: Penn used King's debts to his father to receive permission for a Quaker refuge in the New World.
1685: 8,000 Quakers living in Pennsylvania. Philadelphia was the first planned city, and it was meant to be a utopia. -
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Glorious Revolution
1688: bloodless coup to overthrow King James II. James II abolished absolutism and established a constitutional monarchy.
1689: The English Bill of Rights was established.