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Encomienda System
In the late 1500's and early 1600's, the Spanish crown encouraged settlement in the Americas through the "Ecomienda" System, which offered grants of Indian labor. -
Virginia Company
It was established in 1606 in hopes to find gold and silver. -
Jamestown
First permanent English settlement in present-day United States. However, the location was a disaster due to terrible soil for agriculture and tidal waters led to disease. -
New France
In 1608, Quebec became the foothold for what would become New France. People in New France would become fur traders and thanks to their cooperation with the Indians, they would become a sucessful colony. -
Northwest Passage
Henry Hudson was comissioned by the Dutch to discover the Northwest Passage. -
Santa Fe
Established in 1610, Santa Fe, located in the Southwest, was the first European settlement. -
"Starving Time"
In the winter of 1609-1610 Englishmen lost all of their supplies at sea and they were starving to death. Powhatan and his people helped the Englishmen. -
First cargo of tobacco to England
The production of tobacco saved Jamestown. The first cargo of tobacco was sent to England in the year 1617. For the next forty years America will export fifteen million pounds of tobacco. -
Slavery Begins
First Dutch ship arrived with 20 slaves in America. -
House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses, a group of white landowners, was established. -
Providence
Roger Williams created the settlement of Providence in 1636. -
"Bay Psalm Book"
"Bay Psaml Book" was the first one to be printed in the year of 1640. -
Act of Religious Toleration in 1649
Granted religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland. -
Glorious Revolution
This is when English throne was offered to Dutch Prince William of Holand and Mary, his English bride who was the daughter of James II. -
Charles Town
Three ships of from the Barbados landed on Ashley River, this is where they founded Charles Town. -
King Philip's War
In the winter of 1675, there was great conflict between Indians and Englishmen. The breaking point was when the body of John Sassamon was found under an icy pond. Three Indians were declared guilty for the death of Sassamon and executed. Later, nine English colonists were killed by a group of Wampanoags, thus causing King Philip's War. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion started when a group of Doeg Indians visited Thomas Matthew to collect a debt. Thomas Matthew refused to pay, so the Indians collected pigs from his plantation in northern Virginia to settle the debt. Thomas acussed them of thieves and later killed fourteen Susquehannock Indians, mistaking them for Doegs. The Susquehannocks later killed colonists in Virginia and Maryland. The conflict worsened when Susquehannock ambassadors where killed under the flag of truce. -
Puebloan Warriors in New Mexico
When their leader, Popé, was wipped and arrested for "sorcery." This even led many of Puebloan groups in rebellion around a thousand of them killed four hundred Spaniards and Franciscan priests. Arounds two thousand Spaniard fleed Santa Fe. Afterwards, Puebloans destoryed many churches and washed off their Christian baptizims in rivers. The Puebloan resistance is on of the "greatest" in North America History. -
Paper Money
The first colony to distribute paper money was Massachusetts . -
North Carolina
Lords Proprietor founded North Carolina in 1691. -
"Decree of Sanctuary"
The Spanish crown offered freedom to slaves if they swore loyalty to Spain and converted to Catholicism.