• Jamestown

    Jamestown

    English found Jamestown in Virginia
  • Plymouth Company

    100 people sent to established colony in Maine, but failed within a year
  • London Company

    started to move people to new world
  • John Rolfe

    John Rolfe

    planted sweeter Tobacco in Virginia
  • First slaves arrive in Virginia

    First slaves arrive in Virginia

  • The House of Burgesses

    The House of Burgesses

    the first representative assembly in America, meets for the first time in Virginia. The first African slaves are brought to Jamestown.
  • Puritans settle in Massachusetts

    Puritans settle in Massachusetts

  • Plymouth

    Sep., 100 men and women set sail on Mayflower
    Dec., landed at Plymouth Rock
  • Indian attacks in Virginia

  • New Hampshire

    New Hampshire

    Founded by captain John Mason
  • Dutch build New Amsterdam, and rename it New York

  • Maryland

    Maryland

    Settlers arrived and bough land from Native Americans
  • Connecticut

    Connecticut

    Founded by Thomas Hooker
  • Rhode Island

    Rhode Island

    Founded by Roger Williams accomplished by Anne Hutchinson, both dissenters from Mass Bay colony
  • Harvard University founded

    Harvard University founded

  • The first book established in the U.S.

  • Mass Bay colony

    Body of Liabilities, contain 100 liabilities, considered to be precursor to general laws of Mass and State Constitution
  • Law and Liberty of Mass,

    Basis of civil and criminal law until 18th century, Reflect Puritan concerns
  • Navigation Act of 1651

    about English ships
  • Navigation Act of 1660

    resources from new world has to go England or English colony
  • Staple Act 1660

    anything coming to new world has to go England
  • Period: to

    New Netherlands (NY and NJ)

    NY become royal colony
    1665: New Jersey established
  • Carolina (South and North)

    Carolina (South and North)

    founded in 1663
  • Treaty of Albany

  • John Locke

    John Locke

    The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina
  • Plantation duty Act 1673

    tax on goods from one colony to another
  • Bacon Rebellion

  • Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania

    Founded by William Penn
  • charter of Liabilities and Privileges becomes Royal Colony

  • 8000 Quakers in Pennsylvania

  • Creation of Dominion of New England

  • Glorious Revolution in England

  • Navigation Act of 1696

    goes to the Court, and Judges were from England
  • 250,000 settlers in English colonies