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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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Georgia is founded
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John Edwards
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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"
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The Great Awakening Subsides
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Number of colonists raised to 1 Million
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Paper Money
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Birthrates/Deathrates Improve