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Aug 23, 1570
First Anglo-Powhatan War
Powhatan had inherited control control over just four tribes, but dominated over thirty by the time the Susan Constant, Godspeed, and Discovery sailed into the Chesapeake Bay in 1607. Until the English arrived, he had been "on a roll..." -
Colony at Roanoke Island
This Colony was run by Ralph Lane after Sir Richard Grenville, who had transported the colonists to Virginia, returned to Britain for supplies. The first Roanoke colony lasted a total of ten months. -
England defeats the Spanish Armada
The Spanish Armada was a fleet assembled and dispatched by King Phillip II of Spain in attempt to invade England. His attempt was unsuccessful. Queen Elizabeth I of England held the defeat of the armada as one of her greatest achievements. -
Banishment of Roger Williams
Roger Williiams didn't agree with the strict Puritanism of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and his deportation was ordered by the leaders. He wasn't merely banished, he was exiled. Banishment could be reversed if he'd repented, exile was permanent. -
Settlement at Jamestown
The Jamestown Colony was settled in 1607, thirteen years before the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth Rock and is the site of the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Three ships landed containing a total of 104 men and boys, all sponsored by the Virginia Company of London which hoped to expand English trade and, of course, make a profit. -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the Separatists, also known as the "Saints", fleeing religious persecution from James VI and I. -
Second Anglo-Powhatan War
Friday, 1622, his subjects, planted among the settlements, struck without warning, in what is now known as the Indian Massacre of 1622. A third of the colony were wiped out that day; were it not for last minute warnings by Christianized natives, a higher toll would have been certain. -
Establishment of New Netherlands
New Netherlands was established by the Dutch West India Company to earn profit. This land later in the future becomes the company town. Many people came here to settle to earn money from fur trade. Also, the company buys an island called Manhattan and gains a lot of profit from it. -
New Netherlands becomes New York
The colony of New Netherland was established by the Dutch West India Company in 1624 and grew to encompass all of present-day New York City and parts of Long Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey. A successful Dutch settlement in the colony grew up on the southern tip of Manhattan Island and was christened New Amsterdam. In 1674, New York was returned to the English, and in 1686 it became the first city in the colonies to receive a royal charter. -
Establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century, in New England, situated around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston. The territory administered by the colony included much of present-day central New England, including portions of the U.S. states of Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. -
Pequot War
The Pequot War was an armed conflict spanning the years 1634–1638 between the Pequot tribe against an alliance of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies who were aided by their Native American allies (the Narragansett and Mohegan tribes). Hundreds were killed; hundreds more were captured and sold into slavery to the West Indies. -
Banishment of Anne Hutchinson
Anne Hutchinson was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Three years after arriving in Boston, she found herself the first female defendant in a Massachusetts court. -
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
The Fundamental Orders were adopted by the Connecticut Colony council on January 14, 1639 OS (January 24, 1639 NS).[1][2] The orders describe the government set up by the Connecticut River towns, setting its structure and powers. -
Establishment of Rhode Island
Rhode Island's first permanent settlement was established at Providence in 1636 by English clergyman Roger Williams and a small band of followers who had left the repressive atmosphere of the Massachusetts Bay Colony to seek freedom of worship. -
Maryland Act of Toleration
The Maryland Act of Toleration was a law mandating religious tolerance for trinitarian Christians. Passed on April 21, 1649 by the assembly of the Maryland colony, it was the second law requiring religious tolerance in the British North American colonies and created the first legal limitations on hate speech in the world. -
Navigation Laws
The Navigation Acts were passed by the English Parliament in the seventeenth century. The Acts were originally aimed at excluding the Dutch from the profits made by English trade. The mercantilist theory behind the Navigation Acts assumed that world trade was fixed and the colonies existed for the parent country. -
Barbados Slave Code
The Barbados Slave Code was a law passed by the colonial legislature to provide a legal base for slavery in the Caribbean island of Barbados. The Barbados slave code ostensibly sought to protect slaves from cruel masters and masters from unruly slaves; in practice, it provided far more extensive protections for masters than for slaves. The law required masters to provide each slave with one set of clothing per year, but it set no standards for slaves' diet, housing, or working conditions -
Establishment of the Carolinas
The Carolinas were created in the name of Charles II. There were aristocratic founders who wanted to grow food for sugar plantation. They wanted to gain a lot of profit from the process. Carolina was able to become very prosperous colony in a very short time because of good land. During the establishment, there were slave system that were brought from Barbados. Thus, Carolinas were important to help the economy grow in England and expand the slave system to North America. -
King Philip's War
King Philip's War was an armed conflict between Native American inhabitants of present-day New England and English colonists and their Native American allies in 1675–78. The war is named after the main leader of the Native American side, Metacomet, known to the English as "King Philip".[ -
Bacons Rebellion
Bacons Rebellion was and uprising in the Vrginia colony in North America. It was lead by 29 year old Nathaniel Bacon. -
Penn's "Holy Experiment"
"Holy Experiment" was William Penn's term for the ideal government he established for Pennsylvania in 1681, when he obtained the charter for that colony from King Charles II of England. -
Dominion of New England
The Dominion of New England in America (1686–89) was an administrative union of English colonies in the New England region of North America. The dominion was ultimately a failure because the area it encompassed. -
The Great Awakening
The First Great Awakening, occurred around 1730 to 1760.The great Awakening was a movement rooted in spiritual growth which brought a national identity to Colonial America. -
Establishment of Georgia
Georgia as established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies.[4] Named after King George II of Great Britain,[5] Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788
