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England practiced menrcantilism.
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first 105 colonists sent by the London Company arrived in America.
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colonists from London Company founded Jamestown.
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Pilgrims moved to The Netherlands
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The Dutch founded New Netherlands as a trading post for exchanging furs with the iroquois.
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Dutch ships bring the first Africans to Virginia
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The Mayflower left England after the Pilgrims went back to England because they didn't want their children to learn dutch culture and language.
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London Company could not protect its colonists, so the English Crown cancelled the company's charter.
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Pilgrims landed in Plymouth Rock in present-day Massachusetts.
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A group of 200 English Catholics came to America
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minister Thomas Hooker and his followers left Massachusetts to help found Connecticut.
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Thomas Hooker wrote the fundamental orders of Connecticut.
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English fleet captured New Amsterdam without gun powder.
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tensions between New England colonies & Wampanoag erupted and both attacked each other's settlements.
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Fighting ended between the Wampoag & New England colonists after 600 colonists & some 3000 indians were killed.
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King Charles II granted William Penn a charter to begin a colony west of New Jersey (Pennsylvania).
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Duke Of York sold Penn a region to the south of Pennsylvania.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony had expanded to include the Pilgrim's Plymouth Colony.
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Enlightment spread the idea that reason & reason could improve society.
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Carolina became North & South Carolina
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ministers began to have revivals, in the colonies, resulting in the Great Awakening.
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James Oglethorpe & 120 founded Savannah, Georgia.
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Washington surrenders & intitated the Frech & Indian war.
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British general James Wolfe captured Quebec, gaining the advantage of the war
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Britain receive Florida from Spain & France
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Britain & France officially ended the war with the treaty of Paris.
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Pontiac's Rebellion began when his forces attacked British forts on the frontier because of British settlement.
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Because the British were scared that more fighting would take place, to avoid more conflict, King George III issued the proclamation of 1763.
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Parliament passed the Sugar Act, which set duties on molasses & sugar imported by colonists.
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Samuel Adams believed that Parliament could not tax the colonists without their permission.
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The first colonial boycott in New York in order to hurt the British economy & to convice Parliament to end the new taxes.
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The Stamp Act was passed in which required colonists to pay for an official stamp, or seal, when they bought paper items.
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Delegates from the nine colonies met in New York, & issued a declaration that the stamp act was a violation of their rights & liberties.
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Parliament passed the townshend acts; the acts placed duties on glass, lead, paints & tea.
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Samuel Adams wrote a letter arguing that the laws violated the legal rights of the colonies.
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British soldiers arrieved in Boston because of the rebellion
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Tensions between Bostonians & British exploded, resulting in violence & homocide.
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The tea act was passed, in which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists.
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Colonists disguised as Indians sneaked onto the 3-tea filled-ships & dumped 340 chests of tea into Boston Harbor, this event became known as the Boston Tea Party.
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Parliament passed the coercive acts in order to punish Boston for the ruined tea.
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sold southern region of Pennsylvania became Delaware
