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Jamestown, Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in America. It was established by the London Company.
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Henry Hudson looking for a passage to the Indies sailed into the Hudson River.
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The first assembly in America were elected representatives met on behalf of the colonists. The meeting occurred in Virginia and the first African slaves were brought to Jamestown.
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The Plymouth Colony was established by Pilgrims from England escaping harsh treatment. They signed the Mayflower Compact that created their ideals of a colonial government.
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The New Amsterdam colony was established by the Dutch West India Company which is located where present-day New York City is. It also includes parts of present-day Connecticut, New Jersey, and Long Island.
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The New Hampshire Colony was established in 1623 by Captain John Mason. He had settlers start a fishing colony in the new territory.
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This war was between the Pequot Indians and the colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies.
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The first constitution in the American colonies adopted by Connecticut.
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The Maryland Toleration Act mandates religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians.
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The Connecticut Charter granted the colony a legal basis for being there, and it absorbed the New Haven Colony. It also granted the colony an ability to have a self-government.
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The English take over New Amsterdam from the Dutch and name it New York.
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Bacon's Rebellion pushed for a harsher system of slavery. This was an armed rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon against Governor William Berkeley.
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William Penn founded Pennsylvania and set democratic principles for it. He also made a treaty with the Indians known as Penn's Treaty.
