US History Timeline

By hailbris

  • Iroquois League

    The Indians worked to exploit the beaver trade, working with chiefs from other tribes
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    US History Timeline: 1600 -1800

  • Virginia Company chartered to the First Colony of London

    King James I chartered a joint-stock enterprise called the Virginia Company to the First Colony of London Plymouth

  • Reaching Chesapeake Bay

    The Virginia Company reached Chesapeake Bay carrying 105 men, after 4 months at sea.

  • Henry Hudson

    Henry Hudson began exploring America with the Dutch East India Company hoping to find India

  • Introduced to Tobacco

    The Colonists were introduced to tobacco by the Indians, and started growing them. Tobacco becoming the lucrative source of revenue.

  • First Africans to reach the colony

    A ship with 20 African-Americans reached English America, which would get slavery started back up in the colonies

  • Mayflower Journey

    A hundred men, women, and children, led by William Bradfored crammed on the tiny Mayflower

  • Plymouth

    Puritan refugees heading to Virginia strayed off course and made a landfall at Cape Cod, which became Massachusetts.

  • Maryland Founded

    Maryland was founded in honor of the English Queen Maria, and was granted to Lord Baltimore. It became the first proprietary colony

  • The Pequot War

    Indians and Englishmen fighting over conflict. Indians were getting revenge on the English for forcing them out of their land

  • Harvard is established

  • King Phillip's War

    The peace between the Europeans and the Indians ended because the Europeans were forcing the Indians to convert to Christianity.

  • English Civil War

  • Virginia became Anglican

    William Berkley decided that his colony was officially going to become Anglican

  • Quakers Founded

    Quakers discarded all religous sacraments and formal ministry

  • Jews arrive in North America

    A ship arrives with people of Sephardi, Jewish, and of Spanish Portugese descent.

  • Lifelong Slavery Legalized

  • "Half Way Covenant"

    Baptized children of chruch members could be admitted to a "halfway" membership

  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Tensions due to tobacco revenue, rising taxes, roaming livestock, and crowds of freed servants led to this rebellion

  • Pennsylvania Established

    Founded by William Penn

  • Sir Isaac Newton's Theory

    He challenged biblical notions by saying that natural laws govern all things

  • The Glorious Revolution

    The city of Boston staged a bloodless revolution.

  • Rice became a staple crop

    Rice became a staple crop in South Carolina because of the warm weather, water, moist soils, and frequent rain

  • Belief in witchcraft in the colonies

    Salem Witch Trials

  • The first public stagecoach line opened

  • Georgia is founded

  • John Edwards

    One of the foremost preachers of the Great Awakening

  • John Peter Zenger's Trial

    Zeneger wrote an article badmouthing the government and the king. He was imprisoned for ten months

  • The Great Awakening

    A popular religious movement that spanned all 13 colonies.

  • "Sinners at the Hands of an Angry God"

  • The Great Awakening Subsides

  • Number of colonists raised to 1 Million

  • Paper Money

  • Birthrates/Deathrates Improve