Us history word cloud

1600-1700

  • 1606

    Joint Stock Company begins Plymouth Company
  • 1607

    1607

    English began a colony in Jamestown in Cheasepeak Bay
  • 1608

    1608

    French build Quebec, Dutch began present-day New York
  • 1614

    John Rolfe planted sweeter Tabacco in Virginia, became Virginia's cash crop
  • 1619

    The first African slaves are brought to Jamestown. Women also arrive
  • 1620

    1620

    Plymouth Colony is founded by Pilgrims in Massachusetts
  • 1622

    Good Friday Assault
  • 1639

    House of Assebly
  • 1641

    1641

    Massachusetts is the first colony to legalize slavery.
  • 1641

    Body of Liberties
  • 1642

    Start of the Puritan Revolution
  • 1648

    Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts
  • 1650

    1650

    Savery is made Legal
  • 1656

    1656

    Quakers arrived in New England.
  • 1676

    1676

    Bacon's Rebellion BegindNathaniel Bacon Died
  • 1679

    Kings Charles II seperated New Hampshire
  • 1685

    Monmouth's Rebellion
  • 1685

    8000 Quakers in Penssylvania
  • 1688

    Start of the Glorious Revolution
  • 1689

    English Bill of Rights