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Englishmen abroad three ships-the Susan Constant, the Godspeed, and the Discovery-sailed forty miles up the James River in present-day Virginia and then built Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America.
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John Rolfe came across tobacco strains from Trinidad and Guiana and planted Virginia's first tobacco crop.
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The Virginia Company established the House of Burgesses, a limited representative body composed of white landowners that first met in Jamestown.
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A Dutch slave ship came over to America and sold twenty Africans to the Virginia colonists which then began southern slavery.
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In 1620, a small band of "Pilgrims" found Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. While 10 years later the Puritans colonized in 1630. Around twenty-thousand people traveled to New England.
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In the late 1633 both Protestant and Catholic settlers left England for the Chesapeake, arriving in Maryland. Men Middling means found greater opportunities in Maryland, which prospered as tobacco colony without the growing pains suffered by Virginia.
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After this war occurred Massachusetts Bay colonists sold hundreds of Native Americans into slavery.
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It compelled merchants in every colony to ship goods directly to England in English ships.
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The English seizes New Netherlands from the Dutch and renames it New York after the proprietor, James, the Duke of York, brother to Charles II and funder of the expedition against the Dutch.
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Salem Town, Salem Village, Ipswich, and Andover all tried women and men as witches. Paranoia swept through the region, and fourteen women and six men were executed.
