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Transatlantic Slave Trade begins.African Americans get shipped to America across the Atlantic.
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Queen Elizabeth allows Walter Raleigh to send over 100 men from England to Roanoke
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Settlers are captured and killed by the Native Americans.
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English colonists arrive at Jamestown , Va ; The 1st permanent settlement.
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Looking for Religious Freedom,Pilgrims leave England for Virginia,but get off course by a storm and land in Plymouth,MA
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Pilgrims start the 1st Thanksgiving that lasts 3-5 days in Plymouth,MA.
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Puritans leave England to build the Massachusettts Bay colony.
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Metacom leads a fight against New England.
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William Penn founds the colony of Pennsylvania.
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Plantations in the Southern Colonies begin to create slave labor.