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Chapter 2: The First Century of Settlement in the Colonial South |
late 1500s Formation of Powhatan’s Confederacy
1604 First English settlements in the Caribbean
1607 English settle Jamestown: first permanent English colony on the mainland of North America
1610 Spanish found Santa Fe: establishing a capital for their empire in the present-day southwestern United States
1619 First African-Americans arrive in Virginia
1620s Tobacco boom in Virginia: the beginning of a monoculture in the Chesapeake
1622 White-Indian warfare in Virginia: enormous casualties weaken both sides
1624 Virginia becomes a royal colony
1632 Calvert founds Maryland: Virginians resent competition
1640s The sugar boom begins in the Caribbean: slaves become more numerous and land more scarce
1660 Parliament passes the first of the Navigation Acts
1669 First permanent white settlement in South Carolina
1676 Bacon’s Rebellion in Virginia: civil war engulfs the colony
1680 Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico: massive Indian resistance
ca. 1700 Rice boom begins in South Carolina: slave importations increase dramatically
1715 Yamasee Uprising in South Carolina: native Indian tribes push white settlement back to Charleston
1730 Chartering of Georgia
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