1607–1706 - Exploration & Settlement

Bacon’s Rebellion was the first armed uprising by colonists against English government officials in the British colonies in North America. It took place from 1676 to 1677 and led to a significant increase in the number of enslaved African-Americans in Virginia.

The Beaver Wars were a series of battles that were fought over control of the fur trade in colonial America. During the wars, the Iroquois Confederation took control of the fur trade, eliminated rival Native American Indian tribes, and terrorized French settlements. The French and their Indian allies responded with attacks on Iroquois villages and English settlements. The conflict lasted for nearly a century and ended with the Peace of Montreal in 1701.

The Charter of Massachusetts Bay (1629) set up the government and extent of authority for the New England Company, which later become known as the Massachusetts Bay Company. In 1630, the Massachusetts Bay Company founded the city of Boston.

Mercantilism was an economic theory followed by England that helped lead to the implementation of policies that contributed to the unrest in the American Colonies and to the American Revolution and American Revolutionary War.

The Salem Witch Trials are a series of well-known investigations, court proceedings, and prosecutions that took place in Salem, Massachusetts over the course of 1692 and 1693.

Salutary Neglect was an unwritten policy where British officials allowed merchants in Colonial America to break shipping laws. The policy allowed colonial merchants to flourish and also benefited British merchants. However, when the British Government tried to reverse the policy led to unrest and violence that contributed to the American Revolution and the War for Independence.

Salutary Neglect was an unwritten policy that allowed the American Colonies to grow relatively unchecked until the end of the French and Indian War. This timeline presents key moments in the history of the American Colonies in chronological order that were affected by the concept of Salutary Neglect and Britain’s reversal of the policy.

Definition and meaning of the term Separatists as it relates to Colonial America and U.S. history.