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First 105 colonists arrive to Virginia.
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The Jamestown settlement is where the first settlers lived but died a few months later because of bad drinking water, diseases, etc.
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The Mayflower Compact is enacted. The Mayflower Compact was a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower
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The first thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621. The first thanksgiving was a very important part in history. Without the first thanksgiving, we wouldn't have a holiday named "Thanksgiving"!
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Squanto was a Native American of the Patuxet tribe who acted as an guide to the Pilgrims at Plymouth during their first winter North America.
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Roger Williams establishes Providence Plantations, or known as Rhode Island.
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The Toleration Act is enacted.
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After the English take control of New Amsterdam, it is renamed, New York.
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After the English take control of New Netherlands, it is renamed, New Jersey.
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It was a war between the southern new England colonies and many of the tribes that lived there its known as the natives last chance to drive settlers out of their lands