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Jamestown was Colonized
Englishmen abroad three ships-the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery-sailed forty miles up the James River in present-day Virginia and then built Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America. -
Tobacco was Found
John Rolfe came across tobacco strains from Trinidad and Guiana and planted Virginia's first tobacco crop. -
The 1st Representative Assembly was Established
The Virginia Company established the House of Burgesses, a limited representative body composed of white landowners that first met in Jamestown. -
The 1st African Americans were brought to America
A Dutch slave ship came over to America and sold twenty Africans to the Virginia colonists which then began southern slavery. -
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New England Colonies were Established
In 1620, a small band of "Pilgrims" found Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. While 10 years later the Puritans colonized in 1630. Around twenty-thousand people traveled to New England. -
Settlers Leave England for the Chesapeake
In the late 1633 both Protestant and Catholic settlers left England for the Chesapeake, arriving in Maryland. Men Middling means found greater opportunities in Maryland, which prospered as tobacco colony without the growing pains suffered by Virginia. -
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Pequot War
After this war occurred Massachusetts Bay colonists sold hundreds of Native Americans into slavery. -
The Navigation Act
It compelled merchants in every colony to ship goods directly to England in English ships. -
The English seizes New Netherlands from the Dutch
The English seizes New Netherlands from the Dutch and renames it New York after the proprietor, James, the Duke of York, brother to Charles II and funder of the expedition against the Dutch. -
The Salem Witch Trials
Salem Town, Salem Village, Ipswich, and Andover all tried women and men as witches. Paranoia swept through the region, and fourteen women and six men were executed.
