1492 – Columbus’s discovery of the new world

1500’s – Mercantilism

 

1500’s – Triangular Trade

Social Studies for Kids

International Slave Museum

 

1500’s – Fur Trade

Furbearereducation

Montana Trappers

Economic History Services

Scholastic

 

1585 – The lost Roanoke Colony

 

1607 – Jamestown

Historic Jamestown

U.S. History

History is Fun

 

1620-46 – Anglo-Powhatan Wars

1619 – House of Burgesses Created

1620 – Mayflower Compact

1630 – Massachusetts Bay Colony Founded

1636 – Roger Williams founded Rhode Island

 

1637 – Pequot War

Mystic Voices

 

1637 – Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony

1675 – Metacomet’s War

 

1676 – Bacon’s Rebellion

National Park Service

PBS

 

1692 – Salem Witch Trials

History.com

History of Massachusetts

Salem Witch Museum

Smithonian

 

1712 – New York Slave Revolt

Black Past

Britannica

PBS

Smithonian

 

1733 – James Oglethorpe established the Georgia colony

Library of Congress

Ducksters Education Site

Georgia Historical Society

 

1739 – Stono Rebellion

Britannica

National Humanities Center

The Root

 

1741 – New York Conspiracy

New Netherland Institute