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The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America -
20-30 enslaved Africans landed at Point Comfort, today's Fort Monroe in Hampton, Va., aboard the English privateer ship White Lion. -
The pilgrims were fleeing religious persecution from the Anglican church and left to establish a settlement where they could worship freely in the New World. -
They founded their colony to escape religious persecution and hoped to build a model religious community in the Americas. -
In 1651, the British Parliament, in the first of what became known as the Navigation Acts, declared that only English ships would be allowed to bring goods into England, and that the North American colonies could only export its commodities, such as tobacco and sugar, to England. -
Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 was the last major uprising of enslaved blacks and white indentured servants in Colonial Virginia. -
To prevent the spread of Catholicism into Massachusetts Bay, the General Court banned Jesuit priests from entering the colony. -
The final document is a “Charter” deed from Charles II to James, the Duke of York for the entire territory now known as Delaware -
under the rule of Queen Anne, the two sections of the proprietary colony were united, and New Jersey became a royal colony. -
A Spanish expedition from Mexico established the Mission San Antonio de Valero. -
The Province of Georgia was one of the Southern colonies in British America. It was the last of the thirteen original American colonies established by Great Britain in what later became the United States. -
The introductory sentence states the Declaration's main purpose, to explain the colonists' right to revolution. In other words, “to declare the causes which impel them to the separation.” Congress had to prove the legitimacy of its cause.