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Jamestown was founded
Jamestown, Virginia was founded, English colonists wanted gold and silver, but instead, they found diseases and sickness. Henry Hovener , a Dutch merchant living in London is devoting to requesting supplies for a colony still unable to survive on its own. -
The Perquot War
The Perquot War was an armed conflict that took place between 1636 and 1638 in New England between the Pequot tribe and an alliance of the colonists of the Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Saybrook.pense of the Wampanoags to the north, the Narragansetts to the east, the Connecticut River Valley Algonquians and Mohegans to the west, and the Lenape Algonquian people of Long Island to the south. The tribes contended for political dominance and control of the European fur trade. -
the Half- Way covenant
The Half-Way Covenant is a form of partial church membership created within the Congregational churches of colonial New England in 1662. It was promoted in particular by the Reverend Solomon Stoddard, who felt that the people of the English colonies were drifting away from their original religious purpose. It lessened the difference between the "elect" members of the church from the regular members; Women soon made up a larger portion of Puritan congregations. -
King Phillip's War
The King Phillip's War was after the Pequot Warthe prosperous fur trade contributed to peaceful relations between whites and the remaining Indians, but the relentless growth of the New England colonies and the decline of the beaver population began to reduce the eastern tribes to relative poverty. In relations, the Indians attacked and burned colonial settlement throughout Massachusetts. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's rebellion was a variety of simmering tensions caused by depressed tobacco prices, rising taxes, roaming livestock, and more. the roots of the revolt grew out of a festering hatred for the domineering colonial governor, William Berkeley. He had limited his circle of friends to the wealthiest planters, and he granted them most of the frontier land and public offices. When Governor Berkely failed to support the aspiring farmers, they rebelled. -
Salem's Witchcraft
Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraf and 20 were executed. Eventually, the colony admitted the trials were a mistake and compensated the families of those convicted. The infamous Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. -
The Middle Passage
the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World.While at anchor and after the departure from Africa, those aboard ship were exposed to almost continuous dangers, including raids at port by hostile tribes, epidemics, attack by pirates or enemy ships, and bad weather. Despite—or perhaps in part because of the conditions aboard ship, some Africans who survived the initial horrors of captivity revolted; male slaves were kept constantly shackled.
