Colonial America Timeline Project

  • Roanoke Colony

    Roanoke Colony

    Sir Walter Raleigh made an attempt to make a first English permanent settlement in North America and he did it in 1585 but the colony disappeared when a ship visited them 5 years later and they were never found again and now it is a mystery of where they went and how the survived or how they died.
  • Jamestown

    Jamestown

    Jamestown is made up of 104 men and boys and on may 13 they picked their settlement.Which was named after King James the 1.That is the first permanent settlement in North america
  • house of burgesses

    house of burgesses

    the House Of Burgesses is a political building where only people with wealthy property's could vote and it is Virginia's political system after the destruction of Jamestown from Bacon's rebellion and Virginia claimed its independence in 1776.
  • MAYFLOWE/PLYMOUTH/MAYFLOWER COMPACT

    MAYFLOWE/PLYMOUTH/MAYFLOWER COMPACT

    the Plymouth colony wanted to immigrate to a different country or state, and they did with the mayflower, and it's called the mayflower compact for a reason and it's about the pilgrims and "strangers." on the MAYFLOWER and it is about pilgrims and "strangers" made a constitution only for the and it is about " do not break any laws that are or not against the government " and that made them more.
  • New York

    New York

    The dutch thought that they bought the island of Manhattan from native Americans but they didnt' and years later it has become a trading post for the 13 colonies
  • Massachusetts bay colony

    Massachusetts bay colony

    The joint stock company is investing in a colony in which you choose the location and they look for money for you. And the Massachusetts bay colony is one of the colonies and became a good investing colony and it ran for many years.
  • Great migration--(puritan)

    Great migration--(puritan)

    the reasons they migrated to the United States of Americas was because of the plague which was killing everybody and the rest that didn't die didn't want to die and also stress was building up along with poor conditioning and all the people from the England and came to British colonies that it is in the U.S.
  • connecticut

    connecticut

    Connecticut is known for signing the constitution first and that is why they are nicknamed the "the constitution state".
  • Rhode island

    Rhode island

    Roger William found Rhode island and he did that when the Narragansett tribe gave him land after being banished. the Massachusetts bay colony did it because of his religious views.
  • Maryland Toleration Act

    Maryland Toleration Act

    Maryland toleration act is about the first instance of how the church and state is separated. The law talks about that if they caught you then you would be up to 5 years in prison.
  • Carolina

    Carolina

    King Charles II granted 8 supporters land in the Carolinas.
    With easy access to trade in the west indies. People saddle in the Carolinas to grow cash crops like rice, indigo and tobacco.
  • Bacon's rebellion

    Bacon's rebellion

    Bacon's rebellion is a army that fought William Berkeley's army and that same army destroyed Jamestown but the army ended one year later after Nathaniel Bacon died to dysentery.
  • Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania

    William Penn, a Quaker, established a colony based on religious tolerance. It was a big colony that attracted many people who wanted to practice their religion for free.
  • Salem Witch Trials

    Salem Witch Trials

    the Salem Witch Trials building is a court room because people say they did not "Witch Craft" but they always found a way. And 19 people did from hanging 14 women and 5 men and 2 dogs and 1 guy did from torture because "he did not Plea".
  • Great Awakening/enlightenment

    Great Awakening/enlightenment

    The great awakening is about how religions need more freedom and not all just under one. The First Great Awakening was a period when spirituality and religious devotion were revived. This feeling swept through the American colonies between the 1730s and 1770s. The revival of Protestant beliefs was part of a much broader movement that was taking place in England, Scotland, and Germany at that time. (I found the majority at Brittanica also I hope that this does not mean that my grade goes down)
  • French-Indian war

    French-Indian war

    The war started when their was incidents in the upper Ohio valley when both governments claimed that territory as theirs . Seven years later the war ended due to the treaty of paris.
  • Albany Plan

    Albany Plan

    The Albany Plan was going to place the British Colonies under 1 government and 7 British Colonies adopted the plan but it never happened and the Albany plan is the first plan to conceive British colonies under one government.
  • Maryland

    Maryland

    Maryland was founded in 1774. And the person who found it was George Calvert and 1st baron Baltimore. The colony in Maryland wanted to live in peace with their neighbors and practice religion freely.
  • Salutary Neglect

    Salutary Neglect

    The unofficial British policy where parliamentary rules and laws were loosely or not enforced on the American colonies and trade.Salutary Neglect allowed colonial merchants to flourish, which also benefited British merchants.
  • proclamation of 1776

    proclamation of 1776

    The proclamation of 1776 is about issuing the declaration of independence from Great Britain. The 13 colonies told Great Britian That They wanted independence, and they got it.