The New England Colonies

By Carolyn LaCroix

  • The 1st Puritans come to America

    The Puritans, fed up with the Church of England, want to form their own church. They board the Mayflower and cross the Atlantic to a New World. They land and start the first colony, the Plymouth Colony.

  • King Phillip's War

    An Indian names Metacom or King Phillip was imaged to have plotted this rebellion and led it too. The Indians destroyed the New most of the New England Colonies. The colonies fought back and due to the destruction of the crops, the rebels began to starve. Metacom died in battle and the defeated Indians lost most of their land.

  • Salem Witch Trials

    Three girls started having spasms and fits. The doctors, not aware that these were just diseases at the time, blamed these occurrences on the supernatural. They blamed three women for afflicted/bewitching them and one of the women, Tituba, confessed that she was actually a witch. This spread paranoia throughout the village and soon everyone was blaming their neighbors for witchcraft. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-salem-witch-trials-175162489/

  • The Spark of the French and Indian War

    The fertile Ohio River sparked the start of the French and Indian War, Created a feud between France and Great Britain over who owned the land.

  • The British Colonies Grow Stronger

    Land that the Native Americans lived on was being taken by the British , but the French became allies with them to resist British colonial expansion.

  • Pontiac's Rebellion

    Members of the American Indians surprised and captured most of the British forts in the Ohio River valley and along the Great Lakes. They also raided settlements in western Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia.

  • The Quartering Act

    British Parliament passed a law that stated the colonists had to provide housing and supplies for the British troops stationed there after the French and Indian War.

  • The Boston Massacre

    A group of colonists started hurling snowballs at British soldiers. The British soldiers then ended up being submerged in the crowd and started shooting at the colonists, killing 5.

  • The Boston Tea Party

    The colonists thought the British were tricking them into paying the tax on tea, so the colonists boarded 3 British ships with the tea on it and dumped all of it into the harbor as a sign of protest.