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Growth of the 13 Colonies from 1600-1770
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Jamestown Colony is established.
In 1607, Master George Percy helped founded the colony of Jamestown. There was salty water in the summer due to the ocean. The winters were quite cold and muggy summers. Their fort was created on swampy land by the James River. Rival ships could not precisely hit the fort. In the fall many colonists died because of diseses, salt poisoning, and starvation. -
Tobacco in Virginia
The colonists in Virginia were struggling to survive. They decided to plant tobacco for the investors. The colonists recieved the seeds from the West Indies. More and more planters started to grow tobacco on the James River and the tobacco soon became a well known cash crop. -
House of Burgesses
The first government in the colonies was the House of Burgesses. They had their first meeting in 1619. There were representatives from each town and they came to the meetings to make laws. These people were called burgesses. -
Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock
Separatists came to the Americas on the Mayflower ship. They called themselves Pilgrims because their journey had a religious purpose. There were also other people on the Mayflower such as servants, craftspeople, and poor farmers. All the Pilgrims hoped to find better life at Plymouth Rock. -
John Winthrop
The Puritans received a charter to establish a colony north of Plymouth. They wanted it to be based on the Bible. The Puritans chose John Winthrop as their governor. In 1630 he led around 900 men, women, and children to Massachusetts Bay. They mostly settled in Boston. -
Roger Williams
Roger Williams was forced out of Massachusetts because of his ideas about things. He then lived with the Narraganset people. He became very close to them, so they gave him a piece of land. He then created Rhode Island, were people could feel safe practicing different religions. Roger Williams didn't think it was right that people took the Native Americans land. He also had different opinions about religion. -
Navigation Acts
There were a lot of acts involving the Navigation Acts. The major act was that only England benefited from trade. Colonial merchants couldn't use foreign ships to send goods. Also the colonists couldn't send sugar or tobacco outside England's empire. -
King Philip's War
King Philip's War began because the settlers took the Native American's land without permission or payment. The war involved the Pequot tribe, Connecticut colonists, Massachusetts colonists, New England, and the Wampanoag tribe. Metacomet also known as King Philip wanted the war to end. The colonists won the war. -
Bacon's Rebellion
There was much trouble with the colonists and Native Americans. In Virginia, settlers were moving into Native American lands. The Native Americans sometimes hurt the people that settled on their land. Nathaniel Bacon was a fairly young planter. Bacon led attacks on the Native Americans, and kicked Berkeley out of government. Bacon then died and Berkeley took back the government. -
Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution forced James II off his throne. His daughter Mary and her Dutch husband, William of Orange took the throne. The Glorious Revolution changed the power of the representatives over the Monarch. As they ruled, they signed an English Bill of Rights. This allowed citizens basic rights. This happened in 1689, but it all started in 1688. -
Slaves
In 1700, African Americans were brought to America over sea. The colonists used the Africans as workers and called them slaves. These people were not treated equally and were beaten if they didn't do what they were told. Most were whipped when they did something bad or tried to escape. -
Slave Code
Slavery was a huge part back in colonial times. Slaves did housework, and worked out in the field. Slaves got beaten to death, if they didn't do what they were supposed to. The colony of Virginia created a slave code that controled the behavior and punishment of the slaves. This allowed slaves some rights. -
Great Awakening Begins
The Great Awakening was a time when revival flooded through the colonies. The Great Awakening was to bring strong faith of the earlier days back again. One important person in the Great Awakening was Jonathan Edwards, a preacher. The Great Awakening lasted from 1720 to 1740. -
Georgia
The last British colony to be set up in America was Georgia. James Oglethrope founded the colony. He got a charter that would allow poor people and debtors to start fresh in Georgia. As many days went by, the colonists protested the rules. James Oglethrope couldn't take it anymore, so he left Georgia. Then Britain gained control of Georgia. -
Peter Zenger
John Peter Zenger was the printer of the New York Weekly Journal. He faced charges of libel and printed a critical report about the governor of New York. Andrew Hamilton argued that freedom of speech is a right of English people. The Peter Zenger Trial is an important right of freedom of press in America. -
French and Indian War
Britain and France went to war because they wanted world trade and power on the seas. The French and Native Americans were allies throughout the war. The French befriended the natives while Britain just took their land. The war ended in 1763 and Britain won the battle. -
Proclamation of 1763
There was much fighting taking place in the Westward expansion.Britain called a halt to the settlers as prevention for the fighting, also known as the Proclamation of 1763. The Appalachian mountains was the new temporary boundry for the western settlers. Which means they could not go past that. boundry. -
Pontiac's War
Pontiac's War began in the spring of 1763 and ended in August of 1765. Pontiac was chief of an Ottawa village near Detroit. He wanted Native American groups to unite and fight the British. They ended up killing settlers along the Pennsylvania and Virginia frontiers. The war ended when Pontiac signed a peace treaty and the British pardoned him. -
Treaty of Paris
The Treaty of Paris was a document that ended the French and Indian War. It forced France to give Canada and a lot of its lands to Great Britain. Britain gained Florida from the Spain who was France's ally. North America was now divided between Spain and Britain.
