APUSH Period 2 Timeline 1607-1754

1st English Settlement (Jamestown Colony)

1607

Quebec French Colony established

1608

Powhatan Wars

1610-1677, ended up giving Natives reservation land

John Rolfe and John Smith helped Jamestown

1619, Rolfe introduced tobacco for economy, Smith organized by making everyone work

Slaves reach Jamestown

1619

Mayflower Compact signed, Plymouth Colony government

1620, self-government

New Amsterdam Dutch Colonization

1626-1664

Beaver Wars

1628-1701, parallels Seven Years’ War

Massachusetts Bay Colony started

1630, City Upon a Hill (a model for others to follow) of Puritans + American exceptionalism

Maryland Colony

1633, for Catholic religious freedom

Chesapeake colonies founded

1634, founded in Virginia and Maryland

Pequot War

1636-1638, between Massachusetts Bay Pilgrims and Pequot Natives

Connecticut Colony established

1636, religion (dissent of Puritans)

Rhode Island Colony

1636, for religious tolerance

Trail of Anne Hutchinson

1637, she was banished

Half-Way Covenant

1662, a religious solution for church which allowed children of baptized church members to be baptized, even if their parents had not experienced a conversion.

New York, New Jersey, Delaware Colony seized from Dutch

1664

King Philip’s/Metacom’s War

1675, failed to force Europeans out

Bacon’s Rebellion

1676, cause: economic issues, native conflicts, politic disagreements. effects: movement from servants to slaves

Pueblo Revolt

1680, cause: Spanish religious conversion. effect: expelled Spanish until 1692

Pennsylvania Colony

1681, proprietary colony by Quaker William Penn

Enlightenment starts

1685

Salem Witch Trials

1692

New Orleans established by France

1718

Chickasaw Wars

1721-1763, ended with Treaty of Paris, hinders French control

1st Great Awakening Starts

1730s, religious revival, promoted American culture

Georgia Colony

1732, buffer zone against Spanish Florida

Stono Rebellion

1739, South Carolina slave rebellion, tensions w/ slaves and made laws restricting them

Slavery is codified in the colonies

1751

Seven Years’ War begins

1754