Period II Timeline

Question 1

1607

Answer 1

Jamestown, Virginia, colony founded.

Question 2

1609

Answer 2

Henry Hudson explores the area that will become New York.

Question 3

1609-1610

Answer 3

“Starving time” in Virginia.

Question 4

1619

Answer 4

House of Burgesses established.

First captured Africans to reach the British mainland colonies arrived in Jamestown in 1619 on a Dutch ship.

Question 5

1620

Answer 5

Pilgrims land aboard the Mayflower. Mayflower Compact signed. Founding of the Plymouth Colony.

Question 6

1622

Answer 6

Attack on Jamestown by the local Algonquian peoples.

Question 7

1624

Answer 7

New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch. Beginning of Dutch colonisation (of New Netherland) along the north of the East coast.

Question 8

1630

Answer 8

Founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. John Winthrop’s “City on a Hill”.

Question 9

1630-1640

Answer 9

“Great Migration” of Puritans from England to Massachusetts.

Question 10

1632

Answer 10

Founding of the Georgia Colony.

Question 11

1636

Answer 11

Founding of the Rhode Island Colony.

Question 12

1638

Answer 12

Anne Hutchinson banned from Massachusetts.

Question 13

1649

Answer 13

Act of Religious Toleration passed in Maryland.

Question 14

1662

Answer 14

Half-way Covenant.

Question 15

1675

Answer 15

King Phillip’s War

Question 16

1676

Answer 16

Bacon’s Rebellion

Question 17

1680

Answer 17

Pueblo Revolt (Pope’s Rebellion)

Question 18

1681

Answer 18

Founding of the Pennsylvania colony.

Question 19

1689

Answer 19

Locke’s Two Treaties of Government published.

Colonists bring down the Dominion of New England.

Question 20

1686

Answer 20

Creation of the Dominion of New England.

Question 21

1692

Answer 21

Salem Witch Trials

Question 22

1711

Answer 22

Founding of North Carolina Colony

Question 23

1733

Answer 23

Molasses Act

Question 24

1702

Answer 24

Queen Anne’s War (1702-1713)

Question 25

1718

Answer 25

New Orleans established.

Question 26

1725

Answer 26

The Middle Passage

Question 27

1735

Answer 27

Zenger trial

Question 28

1739

Answer 28

Stono Rebellion

Question 29

1741

Answer 29

Arrests and executions in the supposed "Negro Plot" in New York City. Jonathan Edwards's sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."

Question 30

1744

Answer 30

Religious Revival – The Great Awakening. Ignited by Jonathan Edwards.

Question 31

1751

Answer 31

King George III passed a proclamation forbidding slaves from being declared as real estate, though they could be declared as property.