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