Mr Brown's timeline

  • Roanoke

    Roanoke
    it was the first attempt of establishing a colony in the new continent, it was lead by Sir Walter Right but they failed, second journey people couldn't find the colony nor the people.
    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/mystery-roanoke-endures-yet-another-cruel-twist-180962837/
  • Jamestown

    Jamestown
    First permanent English settlement in North America, located near present-day Williamsburg, Virginia. Established on May 14, 1607, the colony gave England its first foothold in the European competition for the New World, which had been dominated by the Spanish since the voyages of Christopher Columbus in the late 15th century.The colony was a private venture, financed and organized by the Virginia Company of London.
  • House of Burgesses

    House of Burgesses
    Was the representative assembly in Virginia, which was the first elective governing body in a British overseas possession. The assembly was one division of the legislature established by George Yeardley at Jamestown, July 30, 1619; the other included the governor himself and a council, all appointed by the colonial proprietor . Because each Virginia settlement was entitled to elect two burgesses, the original membership of the House of Burgesses was 22.
  • mayflower compact

    mayflower compact
    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. When Pilgrims and other settlers set out on the ship for America in 1620, they intended to lay anchor in northern Virginia. But after treacherous shoals and storms drove their ship off course, the settlers landed in Massachusetts instead, near Cape Cod, outside of Virginia’s jurisdiction.https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/mayflower-compact
  • The Great Migration

    The Great Migration
    The Great Puritan Migration was when English puritans migrated to New England, the Chesapeake and the West Indies.
    English migration to Massachusetts consisted of a few hundred pilgrims who went to Plymouth and 13,000 - 21,000 emigrants who went to Massachusetts.
    Puritans came to the Americas primarily because of religious persecution and economic purposes.
  • New York

    New York
    The New York Colony was founded in 1626 by the Duke of York and other colonists on Manhattan Island.Named after the Duke of York and Albany, the brother of King Charles II of England. The New York Colony was classified as one of the Middle Colonies. The Province of New York was an English colony in North America that existed from 1626 until 1776, when it joined the other 12 of the 13 colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of New York. https://wwwnew-york-colony.htm
  • Massachusetts bay colony

    Massachusetts bay colony
    The Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the owners of the Massachusetts Bay Company, which included investors in the failed Dorchester Company that had established a short-lived settlement on Cape Ann in 1623. The colony began in 1628 and was the company's second attempt at colonization. It was successful, with about 20,000 people migrating to New England in the 1630s.
  • Maryland

    Maryland
    The Province of Maryland was an English colony in North America that existed from 1633 until 1776, when it joined the other 12 of the 13 colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of Maryland.The Maryland Colony was founded in 1633 by George Calvert, Lord Baltimore and other colonists, at Baltimore.
    King Charles I of England specified that the name for the new colony was to be called Maryland in honor of his wife, Queen Henrietta Maria.
  • connecticut

    connecticut
    The Connecticut Colony was founded in 1636 by Thomas Hooker and other colonists, at Hartford. The Connecticut Colony was classified as one of the New England Colonies. The Province of Connecticut was an English colony. The first settlement by Europeans in Connecticut was made on the site of the present Hartford in 1633, by a party of Dutch from New Netherlands. In the same year a trading post was established on the Connecticut river, by members of the Plymouth Colony.
  • Rhode island

    Rhode island
    The Rhode Island Colony was one of four in the New England Colonies.The Rhode Island Colony was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, and was an English colony until 1776 when it joined the other colonies in a rebellion against Great Britain for independence. Rhode Island was give its name by Adriaen Block, a Dutch explorer who named it 'Roodt Eylandt' because of the red clay lining the island's shore. http://www.softschools.com/facts/13_colonies/rhode_island_colony_facts/2044/
  • Connecticut

    Connecticut
    The first settlement by Europeans in Connecticut was made on the site of the present Hartford in 1633, by a party of Dutch from New Netherlands. In the same year a trading post was established on the Connecticut river, near Windsor, by members of the Plymouth Colony, and John Oldham of Massachusetts explored the valley and his reports led to the founding of the colony by Thomas Hooker in 1636. https://www.landofthebrave.info/connecticut-colony.htm
  • Maryland Toleration Act

    Maryland Toleration Act
    Before the First Amendment was adopted, the assembly of the Province of Maryland passed “An Act Concerning Religion,” also called the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649. The act was meant to ensure freedom of religion for Christian settlers of diverse persuasions in the colony. The law made it a crime to blaspheme God, the Holy Trinity, the Virgin Mary, or the early apostles and evangelists. It also forbade one resident from referring to another’s religion in a disparaging way.
  • Carolina

    Carolina
    In 1663, Charles II was king of England. He gave the land south of Virginia to eight proprietors. These men founded the Carolina colony. They named it after the king’s father, Charles I. This new colony
    included what is now both North and South Carolina.The proprietors collected taxes from them. They used this
    money to start a government. Carolina landowners also brought enslaved
    Africans to work on their farms.
  • Bacon's Rebelion

    Bacon's Rebelion
    In 1673, Nathaniel Bacon, a distant relative of Governor Berkeley, emigrated from England under murky circumstances and set up a small plantation on the James River.After failing to extract a promise of action against the tribes, Bacon recruited a small armed force and in 1676 conducted two forays against the enemy. Bacon raised a small army again and marched on Jamestown. The governor fled and the burgesses hastily enacted measures designed to subdue the Indians.
    https://www.u-s-history.com/pag
  • Pennsylvania

    Pennsylvania
    The Pennsylvania Colony was founded by William Penn and others in 1682. The Pennsylvania Colony was named by King Charles II after William Penn's father Admiral Sir William Penn, and the Latin word meaning woodland Sylvania. Together Sylvania and Penn form the name Pennsylvania, which stood for Penn's Woods.The Pennsylvania Colony had been in dispute for many years by the English, Dutch, and the Swedes.
    http://www.softschools.com/facts/13_colonies/pennsylvania_colony_facts/2048/
  • Salutary Neglect

    Salutary Neglect
    Salutary Neglect was a long-standing British Policy in the 13 colonies which allowed the colonists to flout, or violate, the laws associated with trade. There were no effective enforcement agencies and it was expensive to send British troops to America. The British policy of Salutary Neglect was not documented. The policy and era of Salutary Neglect lasted from the 1690's to the 1760's and benefited the colonists boosting their profits from trade.
  • Salem witch trials

    Salem witch trials
    After a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. As a wave of hysteria spread throughout colonial Massachusetts, a special court convened in Salem to hear the cases; the first convicted witch, Bridget Bishop, was hanged that June. Eighteen others followed Bishop to Salem’s Gallows Hill, while some 150 more men, women and children were accused over the next several months
  • The great Awakening

    The great Awakening
    The Great Awakening was a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s. The movement came at a time when the idea of secular rationalism was being emphasized, and passion for religion had grown stale.Christian leaders often traveled from town to town, preaching about the gospel, emphasizing salvation from sins and promoting enthusiasm for Christianity. The result was a renewed dedication toward religion. https://www.history.com/topicsgreatawakening
  • French Indian War

    French Indian War
    The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years’ War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war’s expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution.https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775
  • Albany Plan

    Albany Plan
    Plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. On July 10, 1754, representatives from seven of the British North American colonies adopted the plan. Although never carried out, the Albany Plan was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government.Representatives of the colonial governments adopted the Albany Plan during a larger meeting known as the Albany Congress.
  • Proclamation of 1763

    Proclamation of 1763
    King George III declared all lands west of the Appalachian Divide prohibited to settlers because of the native American revolt lead by the Ottawa chief, Pontiac. This declaration only allowed licensed trades to this lands, The proclamation of 1763 was meant to help protect the colonists from the Natives and also help the Native Americans from attacks of the colonists.
    https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of