Period II Timeline Flashcards
1607
Jamestown, Virginia, colony founded.
1609
Henry Hudson explores the area that will become New York.
1609-1610
“Starving time” in Virginia.
1619
House of Burgesses established.
First captured Africans to reach the British mainland colonies arrived in Jamestown in 1619 on a Dutch ship.
1620
Pilgrims land aboard the Mayflower. Mayflower Compact signed. Founding of the Plymouth Colony.
1622
Attack on Jamestown by the local Algonquian peoples.
1624
New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch. Beginning of Dutch colonisation (of New Netherland) along the north of the East coast.
1630
Founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. John Winthrop’s “City on a Hill”.
1630-1640
“Great Migration” of Puritans from England to Massachusetts.
1632
Founding of the Georgia Colony.
1636
Founding of the Rhode Island Colony.
1638
Anne Hutchinson banned from Massachusetts.
1649
Act of Religious Toleration passed in Maryland.
1662
Half-way Covenant.
1675
King Phillip’s War