IMPORTANT PEOPLE
IMPORTANT DATES
CAUSE & EFFECT
Colonial America
QUESTIONS
KNOW IT ALL
100

John Rolfe

  • He brought tobacco seeds with him to Jamestown

100

Jamestown is founded

1607

100

Treaty of Paris is signed in 1763

  • The French & Indian War ends and the British take possession of all French territory east of the Mississippi River, while the Spanish take possession of French territory west of the Mississippi

100

The voyage that millions of enslaved Africans were forced to endure across the Atlantic to the America’s is known as

MIDDLE PASSAGE

100

King James II attempts to assume more control of the English government: Parliament enacts the English Bill of Rights, decreasing the power of the monarchy

 Parliament enacts the English Bill of Rights, decreasing the power of the monarchy

200

Squanto

taught Pilgrims  how to grow crops in the nearby rocky soil

200

Virginia House of Burgesses is founded

1619

200

Native American population is ravaged by disease and a new source of labor is needed to supply the workers on colonial farms and plantation

  •  Atlantic Slave Trade begins

200

Because the Southern colonies economies were dependent on this labor-intensive industry, they possessed the most enslaved people

agriculture
200

Trade goods and enslaved Africans are exchanged between Africa, England, and the English North American colonies

Triangular Trade Was Created

300

Sir Walter Raleigh

This Englishman received a charter in 1584 to establish the first English colony in the New World, Roanoke Island

300

Mayflower Compact is established

1620

300

England adopts mercantilism

  • England, the mother country, uses its colonies as a way to generate wealth

300

The French explored and settled much of the eastern portion of what’s now this North American nation

Canada

300

James Oglethorpe

to establish a new colony in 1732 which would later become Georgia

400

Thomas Hooker:

  •  He and his followers founded Connecticut in 1636, and in 1639 he wrote the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

400

Bacons Rebellion

1676

400

 Millions of captured and enslaved Africans are taken to locations throughout the America’s (New World)

African diaspora was created in the America’s

400

Several decades prior to the French & Indian War, tensions peaked between English colonists in New England and the Wampanoag which resulted in this

King Philip's War

400
  • Roger Williams: 

Puritans to leave Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636, settlement of Providence

500

William Penn

  •  he’d go on to become a Quaker and later establish the colony of Pennsylvania 

500

English Bill of Rights is enacted

1689

500

King James II believes that the English colonies were too independent:

  • The Dominion of New England is created uniting the northern (New England) colonies under a single government



500

The fall of this important French city essentially marked the end of the French & Indian War, even though an official peace treaty wouldn’t be signed for another three years

Montreal
500

England decides to promote its economic system of mercantilism:

Parliament enacts numerous Navigation Acts between 1650 and 1696 which restricts colonists ability to buy, sell, and trade goods