Colonial Timeline

  • Roanoke

    Roanoke

    Roanoke suffered low food and an Indian attack
  • Jamestown

    Jamestown

    104 men and boys go to Jamestown 20 die and John Ralfe claims Pocahontas as his wife
  • house of burgess

    house of burgess

    House of Burgess was the first place to hold democratically elected preident
  • Mayflower

    Mayflower

    Sailed puritan separists and the natives had the first thanksgiving
  • Great Migration

    Great Migration

    Separisists left to avoid persecution and arrived in the Americas
  • Rhode island

    Rhode island

    Was founded by Rodger Williams and he was banished for religious tolerance
  • maryland

    maryland

    The charter was granted to king Charles son
  • Connecticut

    Connecticut

    Puritans settle in Connecticut and made documents and laws
  • Maryland Tolerance Act

    Maryland Tolerance Act

    Ensured religious freedom to Christian settlers
  • New York

    New York

    The English took ownership of New Amsterdam and called it New York
  • Bacon Rebellion

    Bacon Rebellion

    The last of black and white indentured servants war
  • Pennsilvania

    Pennsilvania

    William Penn established a religious tolerance
  • Salem witch trails

    Salem witch trails

    women would get accused of being possessed or having witchcraft
  • Carolina

    Carolina

    forced to give land to American colonists
  • The Great Awakening

    The Great Awakening

    Was a religious revival in Christian history
  • Albany plan

    Albany plan

    The first proposal of many colonies under one government
  • Salutary Neglect

    Salutary Neglect

    Police from the British were laws and trade were not enforced on American colonist
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763

    British colonist could settle anywhere on the Atlantic coast
  • French Indian War

    French Indian War

    This 7 year war was because of French expanse to the Ohio river
  • Massachusetts Bay Colony

    Massachusetts Bay Colony

    The rightful place where the revolutionary war was held