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Establishing English Colonies in America

  • First English Expedition to Roanoke

    First English Expedition to Roanoke
    John White traveled to Roanoke, an island off of North Carolina. Later, he became governor of Roanoke and brought more settlers.
  • Defeat of Spanish Armada.

    Defeat of Spanish Armada.
    Eglish Defeated Spanish Armada. The Spanish Armada's task was to overthrow protestant England lead by Queen Elizabeth. The Spanish Armada proved to be an expensive disaster for the Spanish, but for the English it was a celebrated victory making Sir Francis Drake even more of a hero than he already was, and even having an impact on Tudor Christmas celebrations!
  • Astablished Jamestown

    Astablished Jamestown
    John Smith & other england settlers established Jamestown. They went there and started building shelter, also planting food. There was a ship the English people came on, so after a while the ship left Jamestown when the English people started to get very ill. Most of there people died in the first 3 months of winter.
  • 38 Colonist

    38 Colonist
    38 colonist remained alive. John smith, a soldier & adventurer, took control. They set sail to find the 38 colonies. It took a very long time to dfind all the 38 colonies, but John Smith did.
  • John Rolfe

    John Rolfe
    John Rolfe devoloped a high-grade tabacco that the colonists learned to grow.
  • Pilograms

    Pilograms
    Pilograms land at Plymouth.In 1620 one hundred Puritans boarded the ‘Mayflower’ bound for the New World. These people were the Pilgrim Fathers. The Pilgrim Fathers saw little chance of England becoming a country in which they wished to live. They viewed it as un-Godly and moving from a bad to worse state. The Pilgrim Fathers believed that a new start in the New World was their only chance.
  • Massachusetts Bay

    Massachusetts Bay
    Puitans found Massachusetts Bay Colony. It is located in Massachhusetts. The Bay is very large in size, so it takes a while to get across the Bay, which is full of water.
  • New Amsterdam

    New Amsterdam
    English takes New Amsterdam from Dutch. The fought for New Amsterdam, but the English won. So the Dutch had to give it up. Which they did, but the Dutch did NOT want to.
  • King Philip's

    King Philip's
    King Phillip's war erupts. His war erupted because the people he got into war with, stole him, and his men didnt do anything to defend themself because, they didnt have an order from the king. So his men were defeated.
  • Governor Bereley's

    Governor Bereley's
    Governor Bereley's refusal of Nathaniel Bacon's demand sparkled Bacon's rebellion. When he demanded it, it took a while for it to come up.