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Virginia
Virginia was founded. -
Massachusetts
Massachusetts is founded. -
New Hamshire
New Hampshire is founded. -
The First Puritans Arrive
Came to practice religious beliefs, but didn't want to break away from the Church of England like the Pilgrims.They wanted to make the church more pure, so they were called the Puritans. They also built Salem, a village on the Massachusetts bay. -
John Winthrop arrives (Summer)
John Winthrop leads 2nd group of Puritans to Massachusetts Bay Colony. John Winthrop's group named their settlement Boston, after a town in England. Winthrop was elected governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. -
Maryland
Maryland was founded. -
Disagreements with church and goverment (in Massachusetts) -Connecticut
Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams were two people who belived the Puritan church should be separate from the colony's goverment.
Puritan leaders voted to expel Williams from Massachusetts.
Connecticut is founded. -
Hardvard College now known as Harvard University
Puritans founded Harvard College, now known as Harvard University. It was the first college in the English colonies. Rhode Island was founded. -
Anne Hutchinson was forced to leave Massachsetts
Both Williams and Hutchinson started settlements that joined to form the Rhode Island Colony. -
Delaware
Delaware was founded. -
Toleration Act
Maryland passed the Toleration Act. This act gave religious freedom to all Christians. -
New York and New Jersey
New York and New Jersey is founded. -
King Phillip's War
Dissagreements over land led to war between the colonists and Native Americans. Metacomet or King Phillip, the leader of the Wampanoag, united many tribes to fight against the colonist. Hundreds of colonist and thousands of Native Americans, including Metacomet were killed. -
Pennsylvania is founded
William Penn, an English Quaker, got approval to start a colony. He named it Pennsylvania. He alao became the owner or proprietor of Delaware. William Penn wrote: The Frame of Goverment of Pennsylvania. I gave people freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to a trial by jury. -
Middle Passage
Trading ships carring goods and raw materials also carried enslaved people from central and western Africa.
Middle Passage- Millions of enslaved Africans were placed on ships and forced to travel across the Atlantic Ocean fromAfrica to the Englidh colonies. -
North Carolina and South Carolina
Carolina was split into two colonies- North and South Carolina. -
Great Awakening
New religious movements begins. It "awakened" , or renewed, many people's interest in religion.
Poor people, women, and enslaved people even started taking part in religious gatherings. -
Georgia
Georgia is founded. -
Fort Mose
Fort Mose was the first free African settlement in North America.
Some were set free by their owners; others bought their freedom.