Colonial america

Colonial America

By MaryJoStinson

  • Colonial America

    Colonial America
    King James I of England issued the 1606 First Virginia Charter which created the Virginia Company authorizing eight Englishmen to colonize "that part of America commonly called Virginia". This starts the colonial time period.

  • The Mayflower

    The Mayflower
    The Mayflower ship transported 102 English Puritans and Seperatists, the Pilgrim Fathers, from a site near the Mayflower Steps in Plymouth, England, to Plymouth, Massachusetts, a long journey of 66 days.

  • The Great Migration

    In the spring of 1630, John Winthrop led a fleet of 11 vessels and 700 passengers to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Great Migration of thousands of English people to the Americas that took place between 1620 and 1640. Many came as indentured servants

  • Culpeper's Rebellion

    Culpeper's Rebellion
    Rebellion against the colonial government in Carolina in 1677 and the Navigation Acts led by John Culpeper. The rebellion succeeded in disposing the govenor and placing Culpeper in his position, but he was removed in 1679.

  • Formation of New England

    Formation of New England
    King James II combines the colonies of Connecticut, Massachussetts Bay Colony, Plymouth, Rhode Island, New York, New Hampshire, East Jersey and West Jersey into a single colony: The Dominion of New England

  • The Great Awakening

    The Great Awakening
    The Great Awakening was an unorganized but widespread movement of evangelical Christian sermons and church meetings in the 1730's and 1740's

  • King George's War

    King George's War between the French colonies allied with the Wabanaki Confederacy and the British colonies allied with Iroquois Confederacy.

  • The Townshend Acts

    Series of Laws passed by the British Parliament placing duties on items imported by the colonists including glass, lead, paints, paper and tea. The reaction from the colonists was so intense that Great Brittain eventually repealed all the taxes except the one on tea.

  • The Boston Massacre

    British soldiers, who were quartered in the city, fired into a rioting mob killing five American civilians in the Boston Massacre.

  • The Continental Congress

    Virginians, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson and Peyton Randolph invited delegations from all of the other colonies to meet in Philidelphia to debate the course of action in response to grievances of colonies against Great Brittain.