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Founding of Jamestown
the Virginia Company explorers landed on Jamestown Island to establish the Virginia English colony on the banks of the James River, 60 miles from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. -
Power of the purse/Pequots War
an armed conflict between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the English colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies and their Native American allies which occurred between 1634 and 1638 -
First Navigation Act
passed by the Rump Parliament in October 1651 in the wake of an unsuccessful diplomatic attempt by Oliver St John and Walter Strickland -
Half-way Covenant
a form of partial church membership created by New England in 1662 -
King Phillip's War
an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their Native American allies in 1675–78 -
Bacon's Rebellion
an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. -
Salem Witch Trials
a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts -
Zenger Trial
a New York printer, was an important step toward this most precious freedom for American colonists. John Peter Zenger was a German immigrant who printed a publication called The New York Weekly Journal. -
Albany Plan of Union
a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. -
Seven Year's War
Fought between 1754 and 1763, the main conflict occurring in the seven-year period from 1756 to 1763 -
Pontiac's Rebellion
A war that was launched in 1763 by a loose confederation of elements of Native American tribes primarily from the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, and Ohio Country who were dissatisfied with British postwar policies in the Great Lakes region after the British victory in the French and Indian War -
Founding of Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Colony was founded in 1630 by John Winthrop and other Puritans, at Massachusetts Bay. -
Great Migration
was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred
