A map showing the various peoples and settlements of North America in the seventeenth century.
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Champlain’s Voyages
First European Settlement in North America
Jamestown Is Founded
Introduction of Tobacco Farming in North America
Smallpox Epidemics Kill Native Americans
Indentured Servitude Becomes Institutionalized in America
The Middle Passage to American Slavery
First General Assembly of Virginia
Africans Arrive in Virginia
Pilgrims Arrive in North America
Powhatan Wars
Founding of New Amsterdam
Algonquians “Sell” Manhattan Island
Great Puritan Migration
Settlement of Connecticut
Rhode Island Is Founded
Pequot War
First Printing Press in North America
Massachusetts Recognizes Slavery
Beaver Wars
Confederation of the United Colonies of New England
Maryland Act of Toleration
First College in North America
First Jewish Settlers in North America
Explorations of Radisson and Chouart des Groseilliers
Virginia Slave Codes
Settlement of the Carolinas
Charles Town Is Founded
American Indian Slave Trade
Metacom’s War Begins
Bacon’s Rebellion
“Holy Experiment” Establishes Pennsylvania
La Salle’s Expeditions
Salem Witchcraft Trials
French Found the Louisiana Colony
Hudson Explores Hudson Bay
Jesuits Begin Missionary Activities in New France
Company of New France Is Chartered
Westward Migration of Native Americans
Founding of Montreal
Hudson’s Bay Company Is Chartered
