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When Queen Elizabeth, who never married died in 1603, her cousin James VI of Scotland, became King James I of England.
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In December of 160, the Virginia Company sent to America 3 ships carrying 104 colonists, all men and boys. In May 1607, after 5 stormy months at sea, they reached Chesapeake Bay. To avoid the Spanish raiders, the colonists chose to settle about 40 miles inland along a large river. They called it James, in honor of the kind, and named their settlement James Fort, later renamed Jamestown. This was the first permanent English Colony.
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After finding the profitable crop tobacco, settlers began growing tobacco for export to England. Using seeds brought from South America. Smoking had become a widespread habit in Europe.
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In 1619, the Virginia Company created the first elected legislature in the western hemisphere. The house of Burgesses, modeled after Parliament, would meet at least once a year to make laws and decide on taxes. It included the governor, his 4 councilors, and 22 burgesses elected by free White male property owners over the age of 17.
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In September 1620, a group of 102 women, men, and children crammed aboard the tiny Mayflower that headed across the Atlantic, bound for the Virginia colony, where they had obtained permission to settle. Each colonist received one share in the enterprise in exchange for working 7 years in America as servants.
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In August 1642, Royalists forces controlled northern and western England, while puritans dominated in the southern and eastern regions of the country. The kings forces appeared to be gaining the upper hand by early 1643. On July 2, 1644 royalists and puritans met at Marston Moor, west of York, in the largest battle of the first civil war, ending the kings control of northern England.
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The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 ensured religious freedom to christian settlers of different denominations who settled in Massachusetts.
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In the mid 1670s, simmering tensions caused by falling tobacco prices, rising taxes, and crowds of landless freed servants sparked what came to be called Bacon's Rebellion.
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This was the Indians last attempt to avoid recognizing English authority and to stop English settlement on their native lands.
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In the small town of Salem stirred a type of rumor that which craft was being practiced by mostly women and young girls. If you were accused of being a which there were no good options, you could admit to being one and be thrown in jail for the rest of your life. Or you could deny and be killed since there was no way to prove you weren't a which.