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Events Leading up to American's Independence

By mstafford2
  • Sep 8, 1565

    European colonization

    European colonization in the United States begins by the Spanish. the founding of St. Augustine.

  • Jamestown

    Jamestown is founded in Virginia by the colonists of the London Company
  • Mayflower

    Mayflower

    the Mayflower ship lands at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with 101 colonists. On November 11, the Mayflower Compact is signed by the 41 men. First form of a local government.

  • Rhode Island

    Roger Williams founds Providence and Rhode Island because he was kicked out of MA. He had "new and dangerous opinions" about religion and politics.

  • Anne Hutchinson

    banished from Massachusetts for nonconformist religious views