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Henry Hudson explores the hudson river in new york tobacco is firts planted and harvested by virgina colonist.
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New York was once known as New Amsterdam. It was changed to new york because a man declared that new amsterdam should be named after him.
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The colony of Rhode Island is found as a place for those ecaping religious intolerance in Massachusetts.
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Rhode Island enacts the first colonial law making slavery illegal
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King charels II of England establishes the colony of Carolina
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The dutch city of New Amsterdam becomes New York when it is ceded to the English
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British prime minister George Grenville introduces this tax as a previous molasses sugar tax.
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This law is the first direct tax imposed on the American Colonist. Its purpose is to raise money for the military defence of the colonies.
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This is englands atemt to reassert its power over the american colonies.
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