1600-1700 Dual Credit US History

By Avery Holcomb
  • Jamestown

    Jamestown

    Jamestown(Virginia) was established in the north American region which was a British settlement.
  • John Smith

    John Smith

    John Smith was elected "president"(leader) of Jamestown
  • Explore

    Explore

    Henry Hudson went on to explore new land and found the "Hudson River" and the northeast coast of the North American region.
  • Raise Money

    Raise Money

    King James started raising money for the Virginia Settlement in the form of a lottery
  • Samuel Argall

    Samuel Argall

    Samuel set out to go to North America from England with 60 men and weapons.
  • The New Netherlands

    The New Netherlands

    The Dutch founded a new colony in present day New York, Delaware, Connecticut and more. They named this land The New Netherlands.
  • Pilgrims set out

    Pilgrims set out

    The people of Britain left to go colonize the New World.
  • Mayflower Compact

    Mayflower Compact

    The Mayflower Compact was signed by the colonists, this was made the colony of Plymouth official.
  • India Massacre

    India Massacre

    This event happened in the Virginia colony with over 300 deaths. The event was caused because the English colonies were trying to expand into Indian territory so the Indians rebelled.
  • Royal Colony

    Royal Colony

    King James took away the Virginia Company's charter because of a lot of things such as political tension and money issues this caused Virginia to become a Royal Colony
  • Immigration

    Immigration

    11 ships travel from England to the English colonies to start a new life they were led by John Winthrop
  • John Winthrop

    John Winthrop

    John Winthrop takes office in Massachusetts as one of the first governors.

  • No Taxation without representation(the beginning of the issue)

    England was taxing the American citizens to pay for things in England when they weren't in England. This caused some of the people in the colonies to get upset

  • Naval battle

    There was a small naval battle between Maryland and Virginia because of territorial disputes
  • Mystic massacre

    Mystic massacre

    Some settlers decided to set fire in Indian tribes led by John Mason

  • The Treaty of Hartford

    This treaty was signed by the Indians(Pequot) and English colonies to stop all the fighting in exchange for the Americans to leave the Indians alone.

  • Connecticut

    Connecticut makes a constitution for their colony

  • The New England Confederation

    A group of colonies comes together and forms the The new England confederation, some of these colonies include Plymouth, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Massachusetts

  • Battle of Torrington

    This battled happened between the Royalist resistance and the Parliamentarians