APUSH Key Dates Period 2

1607

Jamestown Colony Formed

1609

Henry Hudson explores areas that will become New York

1609-1610

“Starving Time” in Virginia (Many colonies, including Jamestown)

1619

House of Burgesses Established

1619

First slaves brought to the United States (Think: The ____ Project)

1622

Attack on Jamestown by local Algonquin Indians

1624

New Amsterdam founded by the Dutch

1630

Founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

1630-1640

“Great Migration” of Puritans from England to Massachusetts

1632

Founding of Maryland Colony

1636

Founding of Rhode Island Colony

1638

Anne Hutchinson banned from Massachusetts

1639

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut adopted

1649

Act of Religious Toleration passed in Maryland

1662

The Halfway Convenant

1663

Establishment of Carolina Colony

1675

King Philip’s War

1676

Bacon’s Rebellion

1679

New Hampshire Colony separated from Massachusetts

1680

Pueblo Revolt (Popé’s Rebellion)

1681

Founding of the Pennsylvania Colony

1686

Creation of the Dominion of New England

1688

The Glorious Revolution

1689

Colonists bring down the Dominion of New England

1692

Salem Witch Trials

1711

Founding of North Carolina Colony

1733

Molasses Act

1735

Zenger Trial

1739

Stono Rebellion

1741

Arrests and executions int he supposed “Negro Plot of New York City / Jonathan Edward’s sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”