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Enter the dates, notes, and name of the entry in chronological order. You will add your own images, if possible.

===**For homework,** each person is to individually compose his/her own 3D timeline using all of the dates listed below. Don't worry about including images, just the information you see below. To save time, copy and paste may be a good option. Your completed timeline is due next class meeting.===

NEW ENGLAND COLONIES TIMELINE

September 16, 1620 MAYFLOWER sails to America ship called Mayflower left England with more than 100 men, women, children aboard

November 21, 1620 MAYFLOWER COMPACT A contract in which male passengers agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good

1630 MASSACHUSETTS Bay Colony Fleet of ships carrying Puritan colonist left England for Massachusetts.

1636 HARVARD COLLEGE John Harvard and the General Court founded Harvard College

1639 FUNDAMENTAL ORDERS of Connecticut Government more democratic than M.B.C., non-church males allowed to vote, and outlined powers of the general court

1644 GENERAL COURT The General Court became two-house or bicameral legislature

1647 Establishing Schools General Court of Massachusetts issued an order to have a public school in a town of over 50 families or over

1690 WITCHCRAFT Salem witchcraft trials executed 19 people and two dogs

1700 READING AND WRITING 70% of men, 45% of women in New England could read and write


 * Southern Colonies**

May 14, 1607 Found Jamestown (first permanent settlement)

1614 John Rolfe married Pocahontas 1619 Dutch ship brought first African slaves to Virginia

1622 Colonists killed the Powhatan leader Leads to 20 years of conflict

1634 200 English Catholics came to Maryland.

1649 Toleration Act of 1649 It made a religious rights to Christians and allowed religious freedom.

1663 Charles II gave much of the land between Virginia and Spanish Florida to 8 of his supporters.

1676 Bacon’s Rebellion Nathaniel Bacon attacked American Indians and burned Jamestown.

1730 20,000 African slaves were living in the southern colonies

1732 Georgia founded King George II granted a charter to James Oglethorpe and other trustees to found Georgia

1752 - British government makes Georgia a royal colony

The Middle Colonies

1613 - The Dutch founded the New Netherland

1647 - Peter Stuyvesant led New Netherland

1664 - English fleet captured the colony of New Amsterdam without firing a single shot

1666 - William Penn became a preacher for the Quakers

1681 - William Penn Founded Pennsylvania

1682 - Delaware founded was part of Pennsylvania until 1776

1700 - 1775 About 135,000 indentured servants came to the middle colonies

1760 - Philadelphia became the largest British colonial city

1750 -1770 The colonial population doubled

Timeline Information
 * Life in the English Colonies**

1619- Virginia’s assembly is established. Notes: It is the first colonial legislature in North America, and is later split into two houses.

1685- James II becomes king of England. Notes: He is determined to take more control of the government.

1686- James II unites the northern colonies. Notes: He unites the colonies under one government called the Dominion of New England.

1689- The English Bill of Rights is passed. Notes: This reduces the powers of the English monarch, while the Parliament gains power.

1650-1696- The Parliament passes law called Navigation Acts. Notes: This limits colonial trade.

1660- Navigation Act of 1660 Notes: It forbids colonists from trading items like sugar and cotton with any other country than England.

1730-1740- The Great Awakening sweeps through the colonies. Notes: The Great Awakening changes colonial religion and affects social and political life. It draws people from different regions, classes, and races. The Great Awakening caused ideas of the spiritual equality of all people, and this led to colonists demanding political equality.

1675-1676 King Philip’s War Notes: Tensions between New England colonists and Wampanoag tribe erupt into war. As a result, 600 colonists and 3,000 Native Americans are killed, including Metacomet/King Philip.

1753- Fighting erupts over control of Ohio River Valley. Notes: The British military tries to take over the valley, where the French already has three forts. This breaks out into war.

1754- General Washington surrenders. Notes: George Washington arrives with soldiers and builds a fort in the Ohio River Valley. He finally admits defeat after many of his soldiers are killed or injured in war.

1754-1763 The French and Indian War. Notes: French ally with Native Americans to fight British settlers. Britain and France sign the Treaty of Paris. This officially ends the war.

1759- James Wolfe captures Quebec. Notes: British General James Wolfe captures the Quebec. This is the turning point of the war.

May 1763- Chief Pontiac’s Rebellion begins. Notes: Chief Pontiac opposes the colonists’ attempts to settle into his peoples’ land. He rebels and attacks the British forts with his forces.

1763- The Proclamation of 1763 is published. Notes: King George III issues the Proclamation of 1763, which bans British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.