Colonial America Timeline

Phillip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe were leading the expedition that landed on Roanoke Island. The early settlement was off the shore of North Carolina and was also known as the Lost Colony. This permanent English settlement was organized and financed by Sir Walter Raleigh. The goal of Roanoke was to be the first British settlement and find gold.(http://totallyhistory.com/roanoke-colony/)

(https://www.landofthebrave.info/salutary-neglect.htm) Salutary Neglect was a policy made in all of the 13 colonies allowing colonists to violate the laws of trading. This policy was a huge benefit to the colonists because it allowed them to obtain higher profits through trade. Salutary Neglect was put to practice becausd the British wanted to ensure the American Colonies would remain loyal to them throughout the period of the expansion of Colonial America.

(https://www.britannica.com/place/Jamestown-Colony) In North America, the first permanent English settlement to be established was the Jamestown Colony. England got its first foothold in the European competition for the New World because of the establishment of Jamestown. Most of the tribes in the area were part of the Powhatan empire, where Chief Powhatan ruled. The Indians Expressed generosity to the tribes and provided gifts and food for the colony.

(https://www.historycentral.com/TheColonies/NY1.html) The dutch government organized the colonization of the New York Colony. The Duke of York, combined New York with the Royal Colony of England. The residents of New York became very angry which led to new York going back to being an independent colony. New York had a diverse population, and was a cosmopolitan city. It established itself as the leading trade center and contained the first jewish immigrants in North America.

The first assembly of the Americas was held in the House of Burgesses. It was an effort made to make Virginia's government more responsive to the colonists. The House of Burgesses was empowered to enact legislation for the colony, although it was ultimately vetoed by the directors of England. The House of Burgesses continued to meet for many years, although their power and influence became very restricted. (https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1151.html)

Began when the pilgrims landed in Plimoth Plantation. Their reason for coming to the Americas was not to get rich, but instead to live righteous and spiritual lives. They all had stable economic lives but they left due to England being corrupt. They declared the first Thanksgiving for the harvest and for the ships that brought the people. (http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-great-migration-of-picky-puritans-1620-40/tation.)

(https://www.plimoth.org/learn/just-kids/homework-help/mayflower-and-mayflower-compact) The mayflower compact was an agreement so that when the pilgrims arrived in England, they were bound together. Not all of the pilgrims had the same religion, because many of them were separatists who were part of the Puritan sect that split from the church, but many of the pilgrims had remained as part of the church of England. The mayflower was the ship that the pilgrims traveled on to reach new England.

(https://www.britannica.com/place/Massachusetts-Bay-Colony) The original settlers in the Massachusetts Bay Colony were a group of about 1000 puritan refugees from England. The puritans who settled in the colony planned to create a society that lived according to what they believed God's wishes to be. If anyone's beliefs did not conform to the beliefs of the puritans they were not welcome in the colony. Farming, fishing, and trade was used by the colonists in order to make a living there.

(https://www.thoughtco.com/facts-about-the-maryland-colony-103875) The Maryland Colony was founded after King Charles I approved its charter. The colony was established as religious refuge, and many of the original settlers living there were protestants even though it was created for English Catholics. Maryland was the first colony in the new World to pass the Toleration Act allowing religious freedoms. It was founded by Cecil Calvert and Lord Baltimore.

The Connecticut colony was founded by Thomas Hooker and the major cities of the colony were Hartford and New Haven. Agriculture was the major industry of Connecticut when the colony first began. They had no religious freedoms and they had many sources of natural resources available to them. When the colony first started it was a charter colony. Connecticut was the 5th of the 13 original colonies to become a state.(https://www.landofthebrave.info/connecticut-colony.htm)

(https://www.landofthebrave.info/rhode-island-colony.htm) Rhode Island was originally classified as one of the new England colonies and it existed as a colony from until 1776. In 1776 is when Rhode Island became one of the U.S. states because of its rebellion against Great Britain. In Rhode Island they had no religious freedoms because the area was inhabited by Puritans who did not allow or tolerate any other religions apart from their own. The Colony was founded in providence by roger Williams.

(https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/868/maryland-toleration-act-of-1649) The Maryland Toleration Act was also known as the "Act Concerning Religion". The act was made to ensure that the Christian settlers in the colonies would have freedom of religion. The act forbade anybody from talking down upon someone else's religion. The Maryland Toleration Act was the first act that referred to people being able to exercise their religion freely.

King Charles II granted 8 settlers who were supporters of him, land in the Carolinas. The settlers who were there settled for the purpose of growing cash crops like rice, indigo, and tobacco. These cash crops were grown mainly for the purpose of selling and trading, rather than the use of the farmer. By 1720, Carolina obtained more African slaves than they did European Settlers. And, in 1729, Carolina split into North and South Carolina due to the fact that it beacame a royal colony.

Began in Virginia when farming settlers demanded the natives of the land leave or be killed. Conflicts began to escalate between the groups and there was a law passed that the natives were allowed to remain in the colonial lands. Nathaniel Bacon was angry and planned a rebellion against Berkeley. A Declaration of the People of Virginia was issued. The rebellion ended up being short lived but cause more harm than good in the colonies (http://totallyhistory.com/bacons-rebellion/)

William Penn got a charter from King Charles II for the colony of Pennsylvania and he established the colony as a "royal experiment". It was a place without landowning aristocracy, and every male received the right to vote along with 50 acres of land. In the 1660's he became a Quaker and his colony of Pennsylvania became a have for Quakers. The colony was established in 1647 as a society for Quakers, but by 1668 the colony of Quakers was formally organized. (Notes)

(https://www.britannica.com/event/Salem-witch-trials) The Salem witch trials occurred as a series of persecutions and investigations that caused 19 people to be hung because they claimed to be "witches". There were also many other people suspected to be involved in the witch trials who ended up imprisoned. All the hysteria began when a girl in Salem village, Massachusetts said she was possessed by the devil and accused another woman of doing witchcraft. The hysteria ended in September 1692.

(https://www.thoughtco.com/great-awakening-of-early-18th-century-104594) The Great Awakening spread through the American Colonies and was an intense time period of religious revivalism. In the Great Awakening, spiritual experience was placed as a very high importance in the people's lives. The Enlightenment happened at the same time, and it stressed logic and reason and placed great importance on scientific laws. It emphasized a personal relationship with God that involved emotion and spirit.

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-albany-plan-of-union-4128842) The British held American colonies under a single central government which was a plan created and organized by the Albany Plan of Union. The plan was never implemented, however, it was adopted by the Albany Congress, where representatives from seven of the original 13 colonies attended. Had the plan had been adopted, the grand council and the president general would have worked together, unified in dealing with disputes of the colonies.

(https://www.britannica.com/event/French-and-Indian-War) The French and Indian War was a war fought between France and Great Britain that lasted nine years. The result of the war would determine who got control over the colonial territory of North America. The cause of the war was based on an argument between the British Empire and the French Empire and who had control over the upper Ohio River Valley. The war ended when France was loosing and they signed a treaty of Peace signed 1763.

(https://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/proclamation-of-1763.html) The Proclamation of 1763 was issued after the end of the French and Indian War by the British board of trade under King George III. They wanted to keep the peace between the colonists and the remaining Indian tribes. so the proclamation was created so that the new territories they gained after the war would have an established government. It was also able to establish some boundaries for the new colonies and government.