1600-1700 (Kaitlyn Qualls)

By Kaitlyn Qualls

  • Jamestown

    The first permanent settlement in America, is established in Southeast Virginia by the London Company.

  • Smallpox wipes out population

    Smallpox epidemic wipes out 90 percent of the Native Americans in the Massachusetts Bay area.

  • The House of Burgesses

    The first representative assembly in America that held their first meeting in Jamestown in July of 1619.

  • Mayflower Compact

    It was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony that included a set of rules based on the agreements. The Compact forced the Pilgrims to all gather together in New England to discuss establishing a civil society.

  • The Indian Massacre

    The English had a plan of integrating the Indians into their settlements, but did not get very far because the Powhatan nation and Openchancanough found out and began plotting a devious plan to show the English that they were not in charge; this is how the Indian Massacre began.

  • Maryland is established

    Maryland is founded as a Catholic colony promoting religious tolerance. The state is named for Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of England's Charles I.

  • Rhode Island is established

    Providence, Rhode Island is founded as a colony by Roger Williams two years after his banishment from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

  • The Pequot War

    Pequot War begins between Pequot tribe and their alliance against the Massachusetts, Plymouth, and Saybrook colonies. The war ended on September 21, 1638 with the Treaty of Hartford.

  • The Constitution of the General Assembly

    The constitution of the General Assembly of Rhode Island is drafted, under the values of separating church and state, as well as permitting public votes and initiatives in legislation.

  • The Peach Tree War

    The Peach War was a large-scale attack by the Susquehannock Nation and allied Native Americans on several New Netherland settlements along the Hudson River, centered on New Amsterdam and Pavonia on September 15, 1655.

  • The Navigation Act

    This Act was passed by British Parliament to control colonial commerce in the New World.

  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Nathaniel Bacon led a rebellion of indentured servants against Governor Berkeley in Colonial Virginia in 1676.

  • Pennsylvania is established

    The colony of Pennsylvania is established when William Penn signs a treaty with the Delaware Indians and pays for Pennsylvania lands.

  • The Plymouth Colony

    The Plymouth colony, which had remained independent since its founding in 1620, joins the Massachusetts Bay Colony.