Timeline

1607    Settlement of Jamestown

1610    Spanish settle Santa Fe

1619    First Africans arrive in Virginia

1624    Virginia becomes a royal colony

1632    John Calvert founds Maryland

1669    First permanent settlement in SC

1676    Bacon’s rebellion

1680    Pueblo Revolt in New Mexico

1708    Black majority in South Carolina

1732    Chartering of Georgia

I. First Colony

            Jamestown

            Living Conditions

            Economy

            Labor force

II. Slave Trade

            Changes in African society

            Middle Passage

III. Chesapeake

            Environment

            Social patterns

            Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)

IV. Carolinas and Georgia

            Economy

            Labor problems

            Black majority by about 1700

V. Spanish Lands

            Early settlement

            Pueblo Revolt

            Spanish return

English view of Powhatan (Library of Congress)

Palisaded village (Library of Congress)

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