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The Founding Jamestown
King James I grants charter to Virginia Company. 3 ships and 144 men where sent on the search for gold sinc gold was very prestine then. John Rolfe got his hands on some Tobacco seeds from the Spanish and grew them at Jamestown and that is how Jamestown flurishd and became the first colonialized settlement. -
The Creation of The House of Burgesses
The Governor George Yardley appeared in Virginia coming from England saying that the Virginia Company wanted to disragard martiel law and to create a legislative assembly. It was then known as the House of Burgesses. -
The Founding Plymouth
The founding of Plymouth began because people came seeking freedom from the king. A group called the Pilgrims saught relgious freedom. They came over on a ship called the Mayflower. There was a group of 41 male adults that signed the Mayflower compact in 1620 and it was an agreement for self-government in which they came together and voted on the subject or problem. A group of natives called the Wampanoag tribe came seeking friendship and helped the pilgrims grow crops with fertile soil. -
The Pequot War
The war involed the Pequot Indians and also the Pilgrim Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was a conflict over livestock ruining Indain crops, property, hunting and untrustworthy traders. The Colonists felt overpowering among the Indians. On May 26, 1637 there was and attack on the Pequot tribe under John Mason and John Underhill. -
The Fundamental Orders of Conneticut
It was the first written constitution of North America. This document was written by Puritains. It was pick up by all the residents of Windsor, Hartford, and Wethersfield and continued to be the Colony's law till 1662. It was organized through a preamble and eleven orders, and entitled God’s requirement for “good and orderly government” to “order and dispose” of peoples’ affairs as the reason for people to “associate and conjoin” themselves into a Commonwealth. -
The Maryland Toleration Act
The Toleration act was believed a way of providing protection for the Catholics while at the same time representing an okay signal in the direction of the English government, which in 1649 and for a dozen years afterwards was firmly under the control of the English Puritans. -
The Navagation Acts
The Navigation Acts were passed by the English Parliament in the seventeenth century. The Acts were originally directed at rejecting the Dutch from the income made by English trade. The mercant theory behind the Navigation Acts assumed that world trade was locked and the colonies existed for the parent country. They lasted from 1650 to 1696 -
King Pilip's War
This was the last major effort of southern New England Indians to dive out the English. The attack was led by Metacom who was a Pokunoet chief. The newly colonized English called him 'King Philip' and this bloody battle lasted for about 14 months and ended up destroying 12 frontier towns. There is no known reason what lead up to this battle but bitterness of the English was very presnt. -
Bacons Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was a dominace struggle between two headstron and selfish leaders rather than a glorious fight against tyranny. The rebellion was aganist cousin in-laws Governor Sir William Berkeley and Nathaniel Bacon, Jr. Bacon made a decloration of the people on July, 30th which said the Berkely was curupt. Bacon also suceeded in capturing Berkely and his men which was the turning point in the conflict and burned down Jamestown, -
Dominon of New England
James II became uncertain about the New England colonies' more independent ways; he and other British officials were particularly displeased by the open flouting of the Navagation Acts.The lasting military threat posed by the French and their Indian allies in North America was an additional reason to tighten control of the colonies. In 1686, all of New England was joined in an administrative merger, the Dominion of New England; two years later, New York and both New Jerseys were added. -
Salem Witch Trials
For a span of two months nineteen men and women are being declared being apart of witchcraft.They are all brought to Garren Hill for hanging. It happend because the daughter and neice of the revrend Samuel Paris became bored because they were not allowed to have toys. They saught Parises slave for emusement and she showed them magic and stories. In 1692 they became histarically ill and accused many people of their pain and they were accused of witchcraft.There was numerous accuzations on people. -
The Great Awakening
The Great Awakening can best be described as a revitalization of religious piety that swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and the 1770s. The earliest manifestations of the American phase of this phenomenon—the beginnings of the First Great Awakening—appeared among Presbyterians in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. -
The Peter Zenger Trial
John Peter Zenger became a symbol for the freedom of the press in the young American colonies.ohn Peter Zenger was a German immigrant who printed a publication called The NEW YORK WEEKLY JOURNAL. This publication harshly pointed out the actions of the corrupt royal governor, WILLIAM S. COSBY. It accused the government of rigging elections and allowing the French enemy to explore New York harbor. It accused the governor of an assortment of crimes and basically labeled him an idiot. Although Zenge -
Stono Rebellion
The Stono Rebellion was the largest rebellion mounted by slaves against slave owners in colonial America. The Stono Rebellion's location was near the Stono River in South Carolina. The details of the 1739 event are uncertain, as documentation for the incident comes from only one firsthand report and several secondhand reports. White Carolinians wrote these records, and historians have had to reconstruct the causes because of the biased potrayls.
