Period 2 Timeline

Jamestown, Virginia was the first place where English migrants permanently settled. It marked the beginning of what would become the United States.

John Rolfe introduced tobacco to the colony of Virginia. Tobacco would become the most important cash crop in the southern colonies.

Between the Pequots and English settlers, this year-long war was perpetrated in order to eliminate the Pequots as a threat to the colonization of America. It was the first sustained conflict between Native Americans and Europeans in the colonies.

An act established to ensure the freedom of religion for Christian settlers in Maryland, this act outlawed blasphemy and the prevention of allowing any Christian from practicing their religion. Punishment for disobeying this act could result in the withdrawal of one's citizenship and even death.

Britain imposed on the North American colonies the Navigation Act of 1651 which prohibited them from importing and exporting goods outside British territory. Colonists began smuggling those goods, showing the beginnings of rebellion against British control.

It was a war between the Native Americans and the English colonists. It was mainly due to the English wanting more land and breaking their promises with the natives. It was one of the final attempts made by natives to drive off the English off their land.

It was the transition between the use of indentured servitude to slavery.

The Catholic James II was overthrown by his Protestant daughter Mary. It changed how England was ruled and planted the seeds for democracy.

It was the largest slave revolt on the British colonies. 20 South Carolinan slaves gathered and their goal was to reach Florida, where they would be granted freedom. This showed that slave resistance began to increase.

The French and Indian War was a war between France and Britain over land in the Ohio River Valley. It was the first war fought by the colonies for Great Britain. The consequences of the French and Indian War led to the beginnings of the American Revolution.