European Colonies

By mickeycaruso
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    The Pequot War

    90 colonist , with their
  • Mar 3, 1494

    Treaty of Tordesillas

    The Treaty of Tordesillas gave Portugal a claim to Brazil, but Spain got the rest of the Americas. European explorers then found that Native Americans already held a claim to the Americas.
  • Feb 2, 1497

    Cabot claimed England

    England King Henry VII sent out his country's first voyage of exploration in 1497. The captain was John Cabot, an Italian navigator. Cabot crossed the Atlantic and landed in Newfoundland. He thought he had reached Asia however he had claimed the land for England.
  • Feb 3, 1513

    Ponce de Leon

    Juan Ponce de Leon was a Caribbean settler who sailed with Columbus in 1493. by the year of 1513 leon begins exploring Florida.
  • Mar 2, 1519

    Cortes and the Aztec

    in 1519, hernan cotes and his soldiers landed on the Golf of mexico. They had a goal they were looking to accomplish which was to conquer the Aztec Empire.
  • Feb 2, 1521

    The fall of the Aztec Empire

    In 1521, the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, fell to the Spanish. This devastated Mexican peoples and their culture. Many Aztecs died, and their cities were destroyed

  • King James's Charter

    In 1606 King James I issued a charter that divided America between two groups, which were the Plymouth Company and the London Company. Both were joint stock companies, business entities in which investors pooled their money hoping to make profit..

  • The starving Time

    Most settlers set out in 1609 in time for one of Jamestown"s worst periods.It was winter of 1609-1610, settlers called it the starving time. The Powhatan Indians, resentful of earlier raids, killing the colonists livestock and prevented them from hunting. Many English colonist died that winter

  • The house of Burgesses

    In July 1619, representatives from the various communities in virginia met in a assembly called the House of Burgesses. Oly white male landowners were granted memberships. The group had power to raise taxes and make laws, however the government still had the right to veto the laws.

  • Suprise attack on Jamestown

    In effort to protect Indian Lands the Powhatan launched a surprise attack on Jamestown in the spring of of 1622. many settlers were killed including John Rolfe.

  • The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

    The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut extended voting rights to all free men, not just church members. It was adopted In 1639 as America's first written constitution.

  • Charles II and the Restoration

    In 1660, two tears after Cromwell died, a new Parliament invited the son of Charles I to become King. His Reign from 1660 to 1685, i called Restoration because it restored the English monarchy

  • The Pueblo Revolt

    in 1598 the king of Spain sent Juan de Onate to settle New Mexico, which Colorado had abandoned a half century before. The pueblo Revolt began in August 1680 with an attack on Santa Fe, the Spanish capital.after a 10 day siege, the Spanish settlers fled the city.

  • Witchcraft trials in salem

    In 1692 a series of bizarre events brought a crisis to the Massachusetts colony. It started in Salem Village, where several girls exhibited strange behaviors, and were claimed to have been bewitched