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Plymouth Company
100 men were sent to establish a colony in Maine but their establishment failed in less than a year. No other efforts were made to found a colony -
London Company
They were granted land from New York to North Carolina and landed on April 26, 1607. Jamestown was established May 1607 - John Smith was their first president. -
Quebec is established
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Santa Fe is Established
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John Rolfe
Jon Rolfe planted sweeter tobacco in Virginia and sent it back to England, making tobacco a cash crop. -
1619 - Important Year!
The first women and Africans arrived this year and the House of Burgesses was formed. -
The pilgrims land on Plymouth Rock
Over half of the original 100 men and women were dead and they never moved ashore permanently until March 1621. They met a Native American named Squanto who helped them build their colony and learn how to use the land. The Mayflower Compact became the first constitution and the foundation for Massachusetts government. Notable people include William Bradford, who was the leader of a Separatist congregation and the governor of Plymouth for 30 years. -
Mass. Bay
Puritans a colony where they could be free and established Massachusetts Bay in the 1620s. Their Body of Liberties was considered a precursor to General Laws of Massachusetts and the state constitution. -
First Dutch settlement is established
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Virginia becomes a Royal Colony
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The Great Awakening
VA makes the Anglican church the established church -
Peter Stuyvesant
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Bacon's Rebellion
Sir William Berkeley took all of the tobacco profits for himself and it angered the colonists. By 1675 they reached a breaking point and Thomas Matthews attacked a Native American tribe for stealing but accidentally attacked the wrong tribe. Nathaniel Bacon was the largest landowner in Western VA and organized another military attack on the Native Americans. Governor Berkeley wanted VA to be friends with the Natives and sought help from England. Berkeley won with the help, killing Bacon. -
Virginia recognizes slavery
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The Great Awakening
A Halfway Covenant is made in Massachusetts extending partial church membership to church members' children who had not yet experienced conversion. -
Maryland made the first slave legislature
Every African or other slave (Native Americans) entering the colony must serve for their life as well as their descendants. -
The Quakers
The Quakers were founded by George Fox in 1666. They were the most radical religious group at the time and they refused to pay taxes, act violently, or take oaths. They were extremely ridiculed by England. -
Baptism would no longer change your status as a slave
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King Phillip's War
The Native Americans wanted their land back, so the colonists gave them alcohol to make them drunk then took control of all the Native American's land. -
Virginia bans interracial marriage
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Virginia slaves accused of committing a capital crime are prohibited from asserting right to trial by jury to appeal a conviction.
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Betty Parris and Abigail Williams
Two girls are accused of having "fits" and their Caribbean servant, Tituba performed rituals to find out who possessed them. These accusations marked the beginning of the Salem Witch Trials. -
Salem Witch Trials
2 dozen women are accused of witchcraft and a special court for witch trials is formed. By June the witch scare had spread to other cities. -
Salem Witch Trials
140 indicted, 50 confessed, 26 convicted, 20 executed - 1 crushed to death by stones and the others were hung. Courts began to stop taking the charges seriously and the court was dissolved. Although, Parris was committed to hunting down witches (his daughters were the first). By 1693 the court refused further charges, the first public apology was in 1697, and compensation was paid by 1711. But no action was brought against the accusers or prosecuting judges.