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    Plymouth

    Joint-Stock Company, sent 100 men to establish colony in Maine, failed within a year, made no efforts to found a permanent colony.
  • Quebec establishment

    Traders established Port Royal in Acadia (Nova Scotia) in 1603 and launched trading expeditions that stretched down the Atlantic coast as far as Cape Cod. The needs of the fur trade set the future pattern of French colonization. Founded in 1608 under the leadership of Samuel de Champlain, Quebec provided the foothold for what would become New France.
  • Henry Hudson's travel

    Sharing the European hunger for access to Asia, in 1609 the Dutch commissioned the Englishman Henry Hudson to discover the fabled Northwest Passage through North America. He failed, of course, but nevertheless found the Hudson River and claimed modern-day New York for the Dutch. There they established New Netherland, an essential part of the Dutch New World empire.
  • James I decree I

    Ruling by divine right
  • Santa Fe establishment

    Santa Fe, the first permanent European settlement in the Southwest, was established in 1610. Few Spaniards relocated to the Southwest because of the distance from Mexico City and the dry and hostile environment. Thus, the Spanish never achieved a commanding presence in the region. By 1680, only about three thousand colonists called Spanish New Mexico home.
  • James I decree II

    Did away with Parliament
  • Tobacco in Virginia

    John Rolfe planted sweeter tobacco in Virginia, became cash crop
  • First of all

    Women arrived at Americas
    First Africans arrived
    Examples of Laws passed
  • The decades of 1620s

    Native Americans' conflicts and the first African slaves arriving in Americas
  • Plymouth colony

    100 Men and Women set sail on Mayflower, landed at Plymouth Rock
  • Good Friday Assault

  • Dutch settlement

    the first permanent Dutch settlement gets organized
  • Maryland established

    Settlers arrived in 1634, bought land from Native Americans.
  • Connecticut

    formed colony of Connecticut
  • Economical turning point

    Profit started flowing to Amsterdam from colonies
  • Massachusetts Bay colony

    Body of Liberties, contain 100 liberties
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    First revolution

    Puritan Revolution period
  • Peter Stuyvesant

    New Amsterdam in disarray, grew and became quite successful.
  • John Locke's Constitutions

    Religious freedom
    Fairly low property requirements for voting
    120 detailed paragraphs
    rejected by most
  • Second revolution

    Monmouth's Rebellion
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    Third revolution

    Glorious Revolution
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    Glorious Revolution

    Overthrow King James II
    Abolished absolutism
    Establish constitutional monarchy
    English of Bill of Rights