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Jamestown
The Jamestown Settlement is established. A group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River -
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Starving time
Only 60 out of 500 settlers in Jamestown survive the winter of 1609-1610. It is called the "Starving Time." -
John Rolfe
Jamestown settler John Rolfe marries Pocahontas, the daughter of the Powhatan Indian chief. John Rolfe's role in the introduction of tobacco as a cash crop insured his standing within the colony. -
Slaves
n 1619, Dutch traders brought African slaves taken from a Spanish ship to Jamestown; in North America, the Africans were also generally treated as indentured servants in the early colonial era. Several colonial colleges held enslaved people as workers and relied on them to operate. -
Plymouth colony
Plymouth Colony is founded by the Pilgrims. More than half the settlers fell ill and died that first winter, victims of an epidemic of disease that swept the new colony. -
Manhattan purchase
Dutch West India Company rep Peter Minuit met with local Lenape Native Americans to purchase the rights to the island of Manhattan for the value of 60 guilders. ... And THAT is how the Dutch purchased Manhattan. -
Boston
17th Century Boston. Boston was founded in 1630 by English Puritans fleeing religious persecution. On 29 March 1630 a fleet of 11 ships carrying 700 people sailed from England to Massachusetts. -
Sweden
New sweden was a Swedish colony along the lower reaches of the Delaware River in America from 1638 to 1655, established during the Thirty Years' War when Sweden was a great military power. -
The dutch strikes again
The Dutch took command of the area by establishing forts that would become Philadelphia, which effectively cut off the Swedish settlements from access to the sea. The rivalry climaxed in 1655, when a Dutch force led by Peter Stuyvesant of the New Netherland captured the Swedish settlements. -
Carolina
In 1712, the two provinces became separate colonies, the colony of North Carolina (formerly Albemarle province) and the colony of South Carolina (formerly Clarendon province).
