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1600-1700
America in its infancy. Culture is still very much European and not a lot has changed with the landscape yet. -
House of Burgess
Virginian colonists founded this as North America's first representation assembly -
Mayflower Expedition
A small group of pilgrims set sail for Virginia aboard the Mayflower. Less than 1/2 of the 100 passengers were Seperatists to begin with. -
Subdivision!
King Charles I split up the Virginia Colony. He also chartered a neo-colony in Chesapeake Bay and granted control of it to George Calvert -
Oh Massachusetts...
Massachusetts became the first colony to recognize the enslavement of "lawful" captives. -
New England Confederation
The territories of Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay, Connecticut, and New Haven formed a military alliance. It lasted until 1684 -
Act of Toleration
Calvert persuaded the Burgess Assembly to adopt the Act of Toleration - the first colonial statute granting religious freedom to all Christians. -
Halfway Covenant
In the 1660s - a generation had passed since the founding of the first Puritan colonies of New England. There was a need to have a profound religious experience to join. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Was a radical uprising led against the Virginian government headed by William Berkeley. Bacon, a poor farmer, raised up a volunteer army and laid siege against a cluster of Native American villages (they wanted land and were denied). Marked a sharp class difference and showed colonial resistance to royally-backed control. -
Protestant Uprising
In the late 1600s, Protestant resentment against a Catholic proprietor erupted into a brief civil war. The Protestants emerged triumphant. -
Tobacco Woes!
Overproduction of tobacco brought hard times to the colonies of Maryland and Virginia - would not recover until nearly 50 years later. -
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1700-1800
This is when America proper was formed as a truly English colony and, later where an independent nation would surface and the seedlings of nationalistic zeal and the slave trade would just start to flower.