Contact and Settlement (1000-1700) With Columbus’ “discovery” of America in 1492 came the beginning of an era filled with exploration and settlement. Many groups came to the Americas seeking God, gold and glory but ended up finding only harsh environments and even death*

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1608 • January – Jamestown founded

1609 • Henry Hudson explores North America from Hudson River to Albany • Tobacco planted in                  Virginia

1616 • Tobacco becomes an export staple for Virginia • A smallpox epidemic among New England              Native Americans

1619 • Virginia House of Burgesses convenes in Jamestown • Slavery begins in Colonial America 1620 • November 9 -- Mayflower lands at Cape Cod, Massachusetts • November 11 -- Mayflower               Compact is signed

1630 • March -- John Winthrop and Puritans move to Massachusetts Bay • September – Boston is                  established

1634 • Maryland established

1636 • June -- Roger Williams founds Providence and Rhode Island • Harvard College founded

1638 • Anne Hutchinson is banished from Massachusetts

1652 • Rhode Island enacts the first law in the colonies declaring slavery illegal

1662 • The Half-way covenant enacted

1663 • Carolina established • Navigation Act of 1663

1664 • The Dutch New Netherland colony becomes English New York • Maryland passes a law                   making lifelong servitude for black slaves mandatory

1673 • Dutch military forces retake New York from the British • British Navigation Act

1674 • The Treaty of Westminster

1675 • King Philip’s War • Bacon’s rebellion

1681 • Pennsylvania founded by William Penn, a Quaker

1682 • French explorer La Salle explores the lower Mississippi Valley region

1685 • King James II takes over Britain • Edict of Nantes revoked

1689 • April -- New England Governor Andros jailed by rebellious colonists in Boston • July -- the                   English government orders Andros to be returned to England to stand trial

1690 • King William’s War begins

1692 • May – Salem witch trials

1696 • April – Navigation Act

1697 • September – Treaty of Ryswick ends King William’s War

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Colonial Time (1700-1775) By 1700 colonists had established their presence in America. In this time period early American cities begin to develop and the immigrants began to acquire an American identity. By 1775 colonials banded together to fight what they saw as English tyranny.*

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1701 • July - French establish a settlement at Detroit • October -- Yale College is founded in                          Connecticut

1702 • Queen Anne’s War in the colonies • In Maryland, the Anglican Church is established as the              official church

1705 • Virginia Black Code • New York assigns the death penalty for runaway slaves caught over 40            miles north of Albany • Massachusetts declares marriage between African Americans and                  whites to be illegal

1710 • Post Office Act

1711 • Tuscarora Indian War 

1712 • May -- Carolina colony is divided into North Carolina and South Carolina • June --                           Pennsylvania assembly bans the import of slaves into that colony

1713 • Queen Anne’s War ends with the Treaty of Utrecht

1718 • New Orleans is founded by the French

1730 • Baltimore is founded in the Maryland colony

1732 • June -- Georgia, the 13th English colony, is founded

1733 • Molasses Act

1734 • November -- John Peter Zenger is arrested • December -- Great Awakening religious revival                movement

1750 • Iron Act

1751 • Currency Act