1600-1876

By msanders62

  • Joint Stock Company

    Failed to make a permanent colony

  • Jamestown Established

  • France

    Established Quebec

  • Spain settled

    Established Santa Fe

  • John Rolfe planted sweeter tabacco

  • Woman arrive on settlement

  • House of Burgesses

    First representative assembly

  • Plymouth Rock

    First permanent settlement of Europeans in New World

  • Mayflower Compact

  • Henry Hudson

    Organized the first permanent Dutch settlement

  • Anglican Church

    Established church of Virginia by House of Burgesses

  • Body of Liberties

    Contained 100 liberties

  • Puritan Revolution

    1642-1649

  • First Slaves arrived

  • Laws and Liberties of Massachusetts

    Reflected Puritan concerns

  • Navgation Act of 1651

    Aimed at Dutch

  • Navigation Act of 1660

    could only be shipped to England or English colony

  • Staple Act

    All European goods must pass though England

  • Society of Friends/Quakers

    Creator George Fox

  • John Locke's Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina

    Religious Freedom

  • Plantation Duty Act

    colonial merchants must pay a duty to ship goods from one colony to another

  • King Philip's War

    1675-1676

  • Monmouth's Rebellion

  • Pennsylvania

    First Planned city in English colonies, Quaker refuge

  • Glorious Revolution

    1688-1689

  • English Bill of Rights

  • Salem Witch Trials started

  • Navigation Act of 1696

    Established admiralty courts

  • Virginia House of Burgesses

  • Stono Rebellion

    Promised Freedom to fugitive slaves

  • Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God

    Jonathan Edwards

  • Treaty of Paris

  • Proclamation Line of 1763

  • Sugar Act

    Vice-Admiralty courts

  • Currency Act

    threatened to destabilized the entire colony

  • Stamp Act

    First direct tax on colonies, must bear a stamp

  • Quartering Act

    housing troops in colonies

  • Declaratory Act

  • Townsend duties

    Taxed Paper, paint, lead, glass, tea

  • Revenue Act

    Created Board of Customs and Commissioners

  • Boston Massacre

  • Tea Act

    Give Money to East India Company

  • Boston Tea Party

  • Battle of Lexington and Concord

  • Battle of Bunker Hill

  • Thomas Paine's Common Sense

    Common sense to get independence

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Battle of Saratoga

  • George Washington

  • John Adams

  • Thomas Jefferson

  • James Madison

  • James Monroe

  • John Quincy Adams

  • Andrew Jackson

  • Martin Van Buren

  • William Harrison

  • John Tyler

  • James Polk