1600-1700

By kinderhoekjongen82

  • The Plymouth Company is formed

  • Plymouth Company sends 100 men to establish a colony

    The colony fails within a year

  • Jamestown is founded

  • Samuel de Compaine established Quebec

    Quebec became a fur trading enterprise

  • Henry Hudson claims the Atlantic coast for the Dutch

  • King James 1 claims to rule by divine right

  • Santa Fe is established by the Spainish

  • King James 1 removes Parliment

  • The first women and Africans arrive to Virginia

  • John Rolfe crosses tobacco strains and plants Virginias first tobacco crop

  • Virginia Company Establishes House of Burgesses

  • The first African slaves are introduced

  • The Mayflower lands a Plymouth Rock

  • Dutch West India Company chartered by the Netherlands to colonies in Africa, the Caribbean, and North America

  • Henry Hudson organizes the first permanent Dutch settlement

  • King James 1 Terminates Virginias charter and it becomes a Royal Colony

  • Charles 1 creates 2 resolutions

    1. Whoever brings innovations in religion into the country is an enemy of the kingdom
    2. Whoever levies customs duties without consent of parliament is an enemy of the kingdom

  • Puritains begin migration to the americas due to persecution

  • Settlers arrive in Maryland

  • Exeter, New Hampshire is founded

  • Maryland House of Assembly created

  • Thomas Hooker forms Connecticut

  • The Body of Liberties is written

    The Body of Liberties contained 100 liberties

  • Laws and Liberties of Massechusetts is written

  • Maryland House of Assembly divided into the Upper and Lower House

  • Navigations act of 1651 is created

    This act imposed trade regulations directed towards the Dutch

  • Maryland creates its first Slave Legislature and Virginia recognizes slavery

    It stated: "All negros or other slaves hereafter imported into province shall serve for life as should their children"

  • Navigation act of 1663 is established

    The act states that some things shipped from the colonies must be shipped through England

  • The Staple Act is established

    The act states that anything shipped to the colonies must be shipped through England

  • The Plantation Duty Act is established

    The act states that anything shipped from one colony to another will be taxed

  • King Philips War

    This war between the Indian Chief Metacom and the British was caused by the British's desire for more land and their enslavement of his people

  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Nathan Bacon organized a militia to attack the Native Americans

  • New Hampshire agrees to come under the juristiction of Massechusetts

  • King Charles I seperates New Hampshire

  • Charles 2 is crowned king

  • Salem Witch Trials

    The Salem witch trials began due to two little girls calling people witches

  • The Navigation Act of 1696 is formed

    Act created a court to enforce the previous acts