13 Colonies

By Penguindude
  • Virginia is founded

    Virginia is founded

  • Massachusetts is founded

    Massachusetts is founded

  • New Hampshire is founded

    New Hampshire is founded

  • The first Puritans arrived

    The first Puritans arrived

    • 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 built Salem, a village on Massachusetts Bay.
  • John Winthrop arrives

    John Winthrop arrives

    • John Winthrop leads 2nd group of Puritans to Massachusetts Bay colony.
    • Winthrop's group named thier settlement Boston, after a town in England.
    • John Winthrop was elected governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
  • Maryland is founded

    Maryland is founded

  • Dissagreements with church and government in Massachusetts

    • Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams were two people wo believed the Puritan church should separate from colony's government.
    • Puritan leaders voted to expel Williams from Massachusetts
    • Conneticut is founded

  • Puritans founded Harvard not known as Harvard University

    • First college in the English colonies
    • Rhode Island is founded

  • Anne Hutchinson is forced to leave Massachusetts

    • Both Williams and Hutchinson started settlements that joined to form the Rhode Island Colony.

  • Deleware is founded

  • Toleration Act

    • Maryland passes the Toleration Act. This act gave religious freedom to all Christians.

  • New York and New Jersey is founded

  • King Phillip's War

    • Disagreements over land led to war between the colonists and Native Americans.
    • Metacomet or King Phillip, the leader of the Wampanoagg, united many tribes to fight against.
    • Hundreds of colonists 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 also became the owner or proprietor of Deleware.
    • Penn wrote The Frame of Government of Pennsylvani

  • Middle Passage

    • Trading ships carrying goods and raw matireals 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 from Africa to the English colonies.

  • North and South Carolina

    • Carolina was split into two colonies- North and South Carolina

  • Great Awakening

    • New religious movement begins. It "awakend", or renewed, many people's interest in religion.
    • Poor people, women, and enslaved people even started taking part in religious gatherings.

  • Georgia is founded

  • Fort Mose

    • Fort Mose was the first free African settlement in North America.
    • Some were sat free by their owners; others bought their freedom.