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1660 - First of the Navigation Acts enumerates exports from the colonies. Execution of Mary Dyer. 1662 – Crown confirms the charters of Rhode Island and Connecticut. New Haven Colony incorporated into the Connecticut Colony. Half-Way Covenant in New England.
The Middle Colonies consisted of the present-day states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware and were characterized by a large degree of religious, political, economic, and ethnic diversity. [59] The Dutch colony of New Netherland was taken over by the English and renamed New York.
The Middle Colonies' political groups began as small groups with narrowly focused goals. These coalitions eventually grew into diverse and large political organizations, evolving especially during the French and Indian War. [19] The Middle Colonies were generally run by Royal or Proprietary Governors and elected Colonial Assemblies.
1491: Columbus sets sail aboard the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria. 1492: Columbus reaches the Bahamas, [5] Cuba and Hispaniola.; 1492: La Navidad is established on the island of Hispaniola; it was destroyed by the following year.
The most populous emigration of the 17th century was that of the English, who after a series of wars with the Dutch and French came to dominate the Thirteen Colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States and other colonies such as Newfoundland and Rupert's Land in what is now Canada.
1776: The original Thirteen Colonies of the United States, also known as the United Colonies, declare independence from Britain. 1784: Britain passes Pitt's India Act. 1787: Britain creates Sierra Leone. 1788: Britain claims and proceeds to settle the eastern half of the continent of Australia.
Middle Colonies Susquehanna (Conestoga) 5,000 1600 20+ James Mooney and J. R. Swanton 123 NE Woodlands New England Pocumtuk: 5,000 1600 Pocumtuc History [100] 124 Northwest Plateau British Columbia, Canada Nlaka'pamux: 5,000 1858 James Teit [101] & A. C. Anderson: 125 Northwest Plateau British Columbia, Canada Dakelh (Carrier) 5,000 1835
Map of early human migrations based on the Out of Africa theory; figures are in thousands of years ago (kya). [2]The peopling of the Americas began when Paleolithic hunter-gatherers (Paleo-Indians) entered North America from the North Asian Mammoth steppe via the Beringia land bridge, which had formed between northeastern Siberia and western Alaska due to the lowering of sea level during the ...