1607–1706 - Exploration & Settlement

The Pueblo Revolt (1680) was an uprising by the Pueblo People against the Spanish in the Province of New Mexico. The Pueblos successfully drove the Spanish from the province and regained control of the territory.

Rhode Island Colony was one of the 13 Colonies that declared independence from Great Britain. The colony started in 1636 and established Religious Freedom and the Separation of Church and State.

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.

The Salem Witch Trials Victims are the 20 men and women who were unlawfully executed as a result of the Salem Witchcraft Hysteria of 1692.

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 timeline, dates, and events associated with the 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.

The Southern Colonies in Colonial America were known for their economic and social systems based on agriculture, including large plantations, cash crops, and landed gentry. The culture of the Southern Colonies is often associated with labor systems such as indentured servitude and slavery but also served as a driving force behind the ideology of the American Revolution.

The Headright System was established by the Virginia Company in 1618 as a way to increase immigration to Virginia and increase the workforce.

The Transatlantic Slave Trade was a business in which the commodity was African men, women, and children. They were captured in Africa, transported across the Atlantic Ocean over the “Middle Passage,” and forced to work in the Americas. It was also part of the Triangular Trade System and the Mercantile System.

The Triangular Trade was a Transatlantic network of trade routes that were used during the Colonial Era, to ship goods between England, Africa, and the Americas.

Roger Williams was the founder of Rhode Island. He was an advocate of the Separation of Church and State, Religious Freedom, and the rights of Native American Indians. His beliefs helped form the concepts found in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

John Winthrop was a Puritan leader who played an important role in the establishment, growth, and governance of Massachusetts Bay Colony for nearly 20 years.

Witchcraft in Colonial America is typically connected to the Salem Witch Trials (1692–1693) and the Puritan Colonies in New England. Both Protestants and Catholics during the Colonial Era feared the unknown, and often explained things they could not understand at the “work of the Devil.” As a result, witchcraft trials were found in nearly all of the 13 Original Colonies.