1600-1700

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    Spanish beginning to settle down

    Encomedia System influenced with their actions
  • Virginia Company

    Founded by the Spanish and it hoped to find resources in the New World
  • Jamestown

    Englishmen founded Jamestown on terrible land that they were warned about by the natives
  • New France

    Quebec became New France and helped the French settle more easily
  • Henry Hudson sent out to discover Northwest Passage

    He was unsuccessful in his findings, but he found and claimed modern day New York for the Dutch
  • Sante Fe Founded

    First permanent European settlement in Spanish America
  • Jamestown Saved

    Close to death the people of Jamestown found hope to flourish with the introduction of tobacco
  • House of Burgesses

    Founded by Virginia Company
  • Plymouth Colony

    Founded by the first pilgrams
  • Dutch West India Company

    Netherlands funded this company and this helped establish colonies
  • New Amsterdam

    Founded by Dutch West India Company
  • Mission System for Christianity Began

    Spanish were beginning to convert natives
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    Great Migration

    Following Charles I coronation, most puritans fled to the America's to find better hope for their lives.
  • Providence Founded

    Founded by Roger Williams
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    Peqout War

    Led to the Massachusetts Bay to sell lots of natives into slavery
  • British colonies began cultivating sugar

    Led to many sugar exports and the essentiality of sugar in the colonies
  • New Haven Colony

    Later transformed into Connecticut
  • Parliament Responds to Charles I Death

    Enforced an act saying that the colonies must accept Parliaments authority
  • Charleston founded

    Leading point of entry for slaves coming across the seas by boat into the colonies
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    Charles II Controlling Colonies

    Tightened his control over the colonies by the Navigation Acts
  • King Philips War

    Sassamon was killed by King Philip and he and two other men were sentenced to death, but the Wampanoags reacted by killing colonists
  • Bacons Rebellion

    Started over a pig but led to a crossfire leaving many dead
  • Metacom Killed

    Killed by a native fighting alongside English
  • Bacon and Berkeley Standoff

    Berkeley outed Bacon for his wrongs and challenged him to a duel
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    Glorious Revolution

    William of Orange successfully took over England without bloodshed
  • Massachusetts used paper bills as money

    First colony to do so
  • Decree of Sanctuary

    Granted by Spanish king to grant freedom to slaves if they converted to Catholicism and pledged their loyalty to Spain
  • Salem Witch Trials

    Men and women were killed for being accused that they were witches