Colonial America timeline

The Roanoke Colony which is also known as "The lost Colony" was the first English settlement in the Americas. The colonists where able to build homes and plant crops. Governor John White sailed back to England to secure additional supplies, but when he came back three years later the colonists were missing and there were messages carved into the tree. It is still a mystery on what happened to the colonists. Information found at www.americanhistorycentral.com

In 1607 104 English boys and men arrived in Virginia. They named the colony after their king, King James. This settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America. Not long after Captain Newport left colonists started to catch a variety of diseases. The death rate was high, they were dying from swellings, fluxes, fevers, famine, and even war. If it were not for the Powhatan Indians in the early years the settlement would've most likely failed. Information from www.nps.gov

The Mayflower compact was signed on the English ship the Mayflower. It was the first framework of government written and enacted in the territory that is now the United States. Rough seas prevented the Mayflower from reaching its intended destination. Because of this they were no longer within the jurisdiction of the charter. Within this legally uncertain situation friction arose between the settlers. To preserve unity they drafted the Mayflower document. Information found on www.britannica.com

The Great Puritan Migration was a period in the 17th century during which English Puritans migrated to New England, Chesapeake, and the West Indies. The immigrants left England mainly due to religious persecution but also for economic reasons too. England was in religious turmoil in the early 17th century. The religious climate was hostile and threatening. Especially to nonconformists like the Puritans. This prompted the puritans to leave England. Information found on historyofmassachusetts.org

The province of Carolina was a province of England, later the Kingdom of Great Britain.That existed in North america and the Caribbean until 1663 which then split into North Carolina and South carolina. It consisted of all or parts of present-day Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and the Bahamas.

Massachusetts bay colony was one of the original English settlements. It was settled in 1630 by about 1000 Puritan refugees. In 1629 the the Massachusetts Bay Company obtained a charter from King James I. This grant was similar of the Virginia Company. The patentees being joint proprietors with rights of ownership and government. The intention of the crown was to merely create a commercial company. The patentees decided to transfer the Charter to Massachusetts.Information from www.brittanica.com

In 1632 Cecilious Calvert was granted a charter as a haven in which his fellow roman Catholics might escape the restrictions placed on them in England. The first settlement and capital was St. Marys City. They were aware of the mistakes that were made by Virginia's first colonists, rather than hunt for gold they made peace with the natives, established farms and trading posts. In 1660 the protestant majority started to resent the roman Catholic leadership. Information found on www.brittanica.com

Ignoring Dutch claims to the land, English puritans from Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay started settling along the Connecticut River and Long Island Sound on the land the Puritans bought from the Native Americans. By 1645 the settlements of Windsor, Wethersfield, and Hartford had united to form River colony, later Connecticut. New Haven was separate with its own government. Concerns about attacks arose this led both Colonies to join the New England Confederation. Info from nationalgeographic.org

Roger Williamson, a refugee from Massachusetts Bay Colony bought land from the Natives to found a providence. A pioneer of religious liberty believed in the separation of religion and state, due to these beliefs he was banned from Massachusetts. His place was the first that the government only ruled in civil things. In 1643 the neighboring colonies made the New england Confederation this solely excluded Rhode island. This made Williamson to rush to England to get a charter.Info on brittanica.com

House of Burgesses, representative assembly in colonial Virgina, which was an outgrowth of the first elective governing body in a British overseas possession. The house of Burgesses was establish by governor George Yeardley, it included the governor himself and the council appointed by the colonial proprietor. Along with two elected burgesses from each of the colonies eleven settlements. The meeting were held in James town until 1700, when meetings were moved to Williamsburg. www.britannica.com

Long before the First Amendment was adopted, the assembly of the Province of Maryland passed an "Act Concerning Religion" also called the Maryland Toleration Act. This act was meant to ensure freedom of the Religion of christian settlers of diverse persuasions in the colony. This act also made blasphemy a crime. This act also appears to have been the first in America to refer specifically to "the first exercise" of religion. https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu

The province of New York(1664-1776) was a British Proprietary colony and then later a royal colony along the northeastern coast of America. Together with 12 other colonies New York slowly gained independence through the American Revolutionary War. Which later became a part of the new country the American States of America.

The province of Pennsylvania also know as the Pennsylvania colony was a British North American colony that was founded by William Penn. Who received the land through a grant by King Charles II of England in 1681. The name Pennsylvania refers derived from “Penn’s Woods” which referred to William’s father Admiral Sir William Penn. The province of Pennsylvania was one of the two major restoration colonies. The proprietary colony’s charter remained in the Penn family until they were later driven out

The salutary neglect was a policy of the British government from the early to med 18th century regarding its North American colonies under which trade regulations were laxly enforced and imperial supervision of internal colonial affairs were loose as long as the colony remained loyal to the British government and contributed to economic profitability of Britain.This “salutary neglect” contributed involuntarily to the increasing autonomy of colonial legal and legislative institutions.

The Salem witch trials were a series of investigations and persecutions that caused 19 convicted “witches” to be hung and many other suspects to be imprisoned in Salem village. The events in Salem were but one of a long chapter of witch hunts that began in England in between 1300 and 1330. (With the last know execution for witch craft taking place in Switzerland in 1782.) The “hunts” were to identify witches rather than pursuits of individuals who were already thought of to be witches.

The great awakening was a series of religious revivals in American history. The great awakening represented a reaction against the growing secularization of society and against the cooperate and materialistic of the principle churches of American society. A number of conditions in the colonies contributed to the great revival; a dull rationalism in New England, formalism in liturgical practices, as the dutch reformed in the middle colonies, and the neglect of pastoral supervision in the south.

The French and Indian war was a phase of a worldwide nine year war fought between France and Great Britain. The more complex portion was the Seven years war. It determined control of the vast colonial territory of America. Three earlier parts of this extended contest for overseas mastery included King William’s War, Queen Anne’s war, and King George’s War. This war started due to the specific issue if the upper Ohio valley was British territory.

The Albany plan was plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government.On July 10, 1754 representatives from 7 of the British North American colonies adopted this plan. Although never carried out this plan was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole United under one government.

The proclamation of 1763 was a proclamation declared by the British crown at the end of the French and Indian War in North America, mainly intended to sooth the Native Americans by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands, in the centuries since the proclamation this has became one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and in Canada.

Bacons rebellion was an armed rebellion beheld by Virginia settlers and led by Nathaniel Bacon against colonial governor William Berkeley. Bacon raised an unauthorized militia of indentured servants and poor farmers to retaliate against William Berkeley. Some scholars believe Nathaniel Bacon had an ulterior motive instead of just simply being upset with Berkeleys refusal to retaliate against the Native Americans. Bacon and his men attacked and destroyed Jamestown,.