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The 13 Amazing Colonies Timeline

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  • Roanoke

    Roanoke
    Roanoke
    Raleigh became captain of the guard. During Elizabeth’s reign, He planned three expeditions to America, including Roanoke.
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  • John White

    John White
    DesertedIn 1587, Raleigh sent out another group of 100 colonists under John White. White went back to England to get more supplies, but the war with Spain slowed him down. When he got back in August 1590, everyone had vanished.

  • Jamestown 20 years later

    Jamestown 20 years later
    JamestownOn May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 members called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River.

  • Tobacco

    TobaccoJamestown was going to fail before a new group of settlers and supplies in 1610. Tobacco became Virginia’s first good for money and a period of peace came.

  • House of Burgesses

    House of Burgesses
    House On July 30, the House of Burgesses (an English word for “citizens”) convened for the first time. Its first law, which, like all of its laws, would have to be approved by the London Company, required tobacco to be sold for at least three shillings per pound. Other laws passed during its first six-day session included prohibitions against gambling, drunkenness, and idleness, and a measure that made Sabbath observance mandatory.

  • Slavery

    Slavery
    Slavery videoIn 1619, the Dutch introduced the first captured Africans to America, planting the seeds of a slavery system that evolved into a nightmare of abuse and cuelty that would ultimately divide the nation.

  • Pilgrims in Plymouth

    Pilgrims in Plymouth
    Mayflower Compact
    The Mayflower Compact, signed by 41 English colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620, was the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States.

  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact
    MayflowerThe Mayflower Compact, signed by 41 English colonists on the ship Mayflower on November 11, 1620, was the first written framework of government established in what is now the United States. The compact was drafted to prevent dissent amongst Puritans and non-separatist Pilgrims who had landed at Plymouth a few days earlier.

  • First Thanksgiving

    First Thanksgiving

    Thanksgiving    Colonist became friends with Native Americans, The Natives taught them how to grow food.

  • Middle Colonies and William Penn

    Middle Colonies and William Penn
    PennsylvaniaIn lieu of money, Britain’s King Charles II settled a debt owned to the Penn family in 1681 by granting William Penn 45,000 square miles of land north of Maryland. Penn’s colony, which he named Pennsylvania in honor of his father, was a religious haven for his fellow Quakers and settlers of other faiths. Penn championed the rights of representative government, personal conscience, religious freedom, public education and trial by jury, principles that would be incorporated into the U.S. Constitut