History Timeline

By Nora43
  • Roanoke

    Roanoke
    Roanoke was founded by Ralph Lane, its mayor John White, left for England and came back 3 years later to find the settlement empty. The word CROATOAN carved onto the trees on the colonies border. The Croatoan were a small ethnic living along the coast of what is now North Carolina.
  • Jamestown

  • Mayflower Compact

  • Great Puritan Migration

    Great Puritan Migration
    The Puritans were members from a religious movement known as Puritanism, and they migrated to Northern English colonies to avoid persecution.
  • New York

  • Massachusetts Bay Colony

  • Connecticut

  • House of Burgesses

  • Rhode Island

  • Bacon's rebellion

  • Salem witch trials

  • French Indian War

  • Albany plan