Timeline

1619–1800 ∼ Slaves and Native Americans

First slaves arrive in America at Jamestown, Virginia (1619) / House of Burgess in Virginia passes laws making the child of a black woman a slave for life and the child of a white woman free-born (1662) / King Philip of the Wampanoags destroys 20 New England towns killing more than 3,000 whites (1675) / Colonial army wipes out the Wampanoags and opens New England to white settlers. (1675–1678) / French and Indian Wars (1689–1763) / U.S. signs treaties with several Indian nations (1784–1794)

MILESTONES: John Winthrop lectures Puritans on board ship about model behavior before arriving in America (1630) • Early American cities established: Jamestown (1607), Santa Fe (1610), Boston (1630) • Constitutional Convention ratifies the Constitution for the new republic (1787) • Congress authorizes recruitment of marshals to serve warrants and subpoenas (1789) • Naturalization Law excludes non-whites from citizenship (1790) • Edward Jenner develops smallpox vaccination in England (1796)

1800–1849 &sim...