starving time causes the number of colonists to go down to 65
Tobacco becomes an export staple for Virginia.
Virginia company hit upon a recruting strategy called the head right system
The first session of the first colonial legislative assembly, the Virginia House of Burgesses, convenes in Jamestown.
Slavery begins in the colonies, as twenty Africans are brought by a Dutch ship to Jamestown for sale as indentured servants.
The Mayflower ship lands at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with 101 colonists.
The Mayflower Compact is signed, establishing a form of local government at Plymouth.
One of the first peace treaties between colonists and Native Americans, specifically the Plymouth pilgrims and the Wampanoag Tribe, is signed with the aid of Squanto, an English-speaking Native American.
The Puritans are the first to settle the Massachusetts Bay Colony
The First Navigation Act is passed by Cromwell's Parliament, prohibiting the shipment of colonial goods to England in non-English ships.
The Pennsylvania assembly bans the import of slaves.
