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Jamestown Established
First permanent English settlement -
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Quebec Established
First permanent French settlement in the New World. French treated natives with respect -
New Amsterdamn
Henry Hudson established New Amsterdamn for the Dutch -
First Africans
First Africans came to Virginia as indentured servants -
Mayflower Arrival
Mayflower lands at Cap Cod, Massachusetts. People that came over were Puritains and created Mayflower compact -
Harvard Founded
First official college in the New World founded in Caimbridge, Massachusetts -
Printing Press
First official printing press is set up in Caimbridge Massachusetts -
Massachusetts Law
Puritains emphasized importance of education of the Bible and started first tax-supported school. Towns of over fifty families were required to have primary schools for boys and towns over one hundred families were required to prepare boys for college -
Act of Tolerence
Calvery persuaded assembly to grant religious freedom to all Christians -
Rhode Island new laws
Rhode Island passes a law making slavery illegal -
Discriminatory Laws
Law passed that stated Africans were to be treated as life-long slaves while what laborers were set free after a certain number of years -
House of Burgesses
Virginian governent attempted to raise the taxes on tobacco so the merchants responded by raising the prices of goods exported -
Bacon's Rebellion
Sir William Berkley adopted policies that favored the large planters and used dictorial powers to govern. He antagonized backwoods farmers. Bacon and poverish gentlemen rebelled -
Navigation Act
Navigation Act of 1663 requires that most imports to the colonies must be transported via England on English ships -
King Phillip's War
An Indian cheif of the Wampanoags and his tribe fought English settlers in a brutal war -
Pennsylvania Law
Pennsilvania governing body passes law that prohibits slaves from being imported to the colony -
First Almanack
Benjamin Franklin's advice was collected into Poor Richard's almanack -
Zenger Case
John Peter Zenger was brought to trial for libelously criticising New York's royal governor. He claims he spoke truth and that the truth deserved to be heard. Established freedom of the press -
Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards initiates Great Awakening -
French and Indian War
War between the French and Indians in the New World