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Period: Apr 26, 1450 to
Triangular Trade
the colonists had a lot of crops so the started shipping tabbaco corn rice to England. From England, they went to Africa to get and slaves gun ammunition .from Africa they went back to north America to unboard the goods . The colinest sent less than they got so that was a big problem. -
John White returns to Roanoke and finds deserted land.
After helping establish the first English settlement on the Island of Roanoke, off the coast of modern day North Carolina, John White reluctantly returned to England for supplies. Delayed by war for three years, he returns in 1590 to find the colonists but they are gone. There was a mark on a tree that had a Native Americans. It is still not known what happened to them. -
When Jamestown was found
In December 6th 1607 James town was found in Virginia. There food was bad because of the bad soil. The water that they got from the river was bad . Alot of people died because there was not alot of food and the water killed alot of people plus the winter got people sick and died. -
Massachusetts is founded.
The Massachusetts Colony was one of the original 13 colonies located on the Atlantic coast of North America. The original 13 colonies were divided into three areas consisting of the New England, Middle and Southern colonies. The Massachusetts Colony was classified as one of the New England Colonies. The Province of Massachusetts was an English colony in North America .In 1630, when it joined the other 12 of the 13 colonies in rebellion against Great Britain. -
New Hampshire is founded.
The New Hampshire Colony was one of the original 13 colonies located on the Atlantic coast of North America.. The New Hampshire Colony was classified as one of the New England Colonies. The Province of New Hampshire was an English colony in North America that existed from 1638 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 Hampshire. -
Rhode Island is founded by Roger Williams.
After being kicked out Massachusetts for his belief in the separation of church and state. Roger Williams goes to live with the Narragansett Indians. He forms Providence, which will be the capital of Rhode IslandWith his followers. He fled to Narragansett Bay, where he purchased land from the Narragansett Indians and established a new colony, which became a haven for Baptists, Quakers, Jews and other religious minorities. -
A group of Virginians establishes Carolina.
As early as 1632, the Virginians considered parts of what is now North Carolina to be their "Southern Plantation." James town got over populated. However, the Great Dismal Swamp made it seem that anything south of James Town was not worth pursuing. Soon, intrepid explorers discovered that the Great Dismal Swamp did not go on forever and there were actually "wonderful lands" within a few days' trek south of James Town. Click Here to see Virginia's claimed "Southern Plantation." -
Pennsylvania is established by William Penn.
The founder, English reformer William Penn, born on October 14, 1644, in London, England, named it in honor of his father.
Persecuted in England for his Quaker faith, Penn came to America in 1682 and established Pennsylvania as a place where people could enjoy freedom of religion. The colony became a haven for minority religious sects from Germany, Holland, Scandinavia, and Great Britain. Penn obtained the land from King Charles II as payment for a debt owed to his deceased father. -
The colonies declare their independence from England.
On this day in 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence. Which proclaims the independence of a new United States of America from Great Britain and its king. The declaration came 442 days after the first shots of the American Revolution were fired at Lexington. Concord in Massachusetts and marked an ideological expansion of the conflict that would eventually involve France’s intervention on behalf of the Americans. -
The 13 colonies are represented in the first American flag.
When the American Revolutionary War broke out in 1775, the colonists didn’t yet unite under a single flag. One flag of the time featured a picture of a coiled rattlesnake with the slogan.“Don’t Tread on Me,” while another showed a pine tree with the words “An Appeal to Heaven.” “There really wasn’t anything that was stars and stripes, red, white and blue,” said Mike Buss. A flag expert with the American Legion veterans’ organization.
