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Jamestown, Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
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Samuel de Champlain founds Quebec as a trading city for the French.
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Virginia's legislative body, The House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time. It was one of the first forms of local, representative government in the colonies.
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The first Africans in America were brought over as indentured servants to the Chesapeake Bay
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The Pilgrims established the colony of Plymouth in Massachusetts to escape religious persecution
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The Dutch establish a fur trading post, Fort Orange, in Albany, New York.
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The Puritans, lead by John Winthrop, founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Maryland was given to Cecil Calvert, the second lord of Baltimore, by King Charles I as a charter.
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Conflict between Natives and colonists over the control of fur trade. New England wins, and drives out the Pequot tribe.
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Roger Williams founds Providence after fleeing from religious persecution in Massachusetts Bay.
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Anne Hutchinson is banished from Massachusetts Bay for religious heresy and flees to Rhode Island.
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required all trade between England and the colonies to be carried in English or colonial vessels
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King Charles II gives land to the Lord Proprietors, which would be used to create the Province of Carolina Colony.
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England captures New Netherlands and renames it New York.
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Virginia law declares that the murder of slave cannot be treated as a felony. This set the precedent of creating laws discriminating against blacks.
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Nathaniel Bacon, a Virginia colonist, led a group of settlers in armed rebellion against Virginia Governor William Berkeley and the wealthy planters
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King Philip united the Wampanoag Indians, Nipmucks, Pocumtucks, and Narragansetts in a bloody uprising against the New England colonists. It was the last attempt at resistance by Natives to New England.
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King Charles II gave William Penn land to settle a debt, which he used to form the colony of Pennsylvania.
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The merging of the New England colonies by King James II in order to establish more direct control.
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A mass hysteria caused by a group of young girls accusing local women in Salem of witchcraft.
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A period of intellectual and philosophical thought based on logic and reason
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a series of Christian religious revivals throughout the colonies
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Georgia was the founded by James Oglethorpe as the last colony. It was meant to protect the other colonies from the Spanish by being in between them.
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imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses from non-English colonies
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Britain ends its policy of Salutary Neglect towards the colonies and seeks more control.
