1600-1700

  • Port Royal is established

    Port Royal is established by the French in Nova Scotia
  • Queen Elizabeth dies

  • Virginia Company is founded

  • Jamestown is founded

    Jamestown was founded on May 13th, 1607. However, the colonist ships arrived in late April and explored the area before settling
  • Quebec is founded

    Under the leadership of Samuel De Champlain, Quebec is founded in New France, or today's Canada
  • Santa Fe was founded

    The first permanent European Settlement in the Southwest
  • Pocahontas Marries John Rolfe

    Indian marries a colonist, which created a short time of peace and cooperation between the local tribe and the colonists
  • First Tobacco Plant is planted

    John Rolfe crossed strains from Trinidad and Guiana and planted it inJamestown
  • House of Burgesses founded

    Virginia created the House of Burgesses as a representative body of the colony
  • Plymouth was founded

  • Opechancanough attacks Jamestown

    The successor of Powhatan pledges to drive the colonists back to the sea, and kills over 350 colonists
  • New Hampshire is settled

  • Dutch "buy" Manhattan

    Peter Minuit buys Manhattan from the Munsee Indians
  • Massachusetts Bay colony was founded

    Was settled buy Puritans
  • Maryland become a colony

  • Connecticut Colony was founded

    Founded by Thomas Hooker
  • Rhode Island colony is settled

    Founded and settled by Roger Williams
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    Pequot War

    The war was between the English and the Pequot tribe, which began because 2 Englishmen on expedition were killed
  • Delaware is settled

  • North Carolina is founded

  • Slave Inheritance Law Established in Virginia

    Virgina declared that offspring of slaves would also be slaves for life
  • South Carolina is founded

  • New York becomes a colony

  • Charleston was settled

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    King Philip's War

    Conflict between the English and Metacom, led to more violence following the Pequot war and was a last effort to push the colonists back to the ocean
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    Bacon's Rebellion

    After a debt collection by indians turned into violent confrontations and battles with multiple tribes, Bacon caused a rebellion pitting everyone against eachother in a fight to defend their families.
  • Pennsylvania becomes a Colony

  • Massachusetts issues paper money

    Massachusetts becomes the first colony in the west to print and issue paper money
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    Salem Witch Trials

    Paranoia about the supernatural resulted in trials accusing men and women of being witches and resulted in 14 women and 6 men being executed
  • Decree of Sanctuary

    Spain decreed that any slave who escaped the British colonies and made it to theirs, and would convert to Catholicism would be free