THE SOUTHERN COLONIES IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
1. 1607– 1610
-------- First Africans arrive in Virginia Colony of Maryland founded Slave labor system emerges in Carolina and Chesapeake colonies Navigation Act requires colonial products be shipped only to English ports; Virginia law defines slavery as inherited, lifelong servitude Opechancanough leads first uprising in Virginia Barbados colonists grow sugarcane with slave labor Starvation plagues Jamestown Pueblo Revolt John Rolfe begins to plant tobacco in Virginia Bacon’s Rebellion Virginia becomes royal colony
2. 1612
-------- First Africans arrive in Virginia Colony of Maryland founded Slave labor system emerges in Carolina and Chesapeake colonies Navigation Act requires colonial products be shipped only to English ports; Virginia law defines slavery as inherited, lifelong servitude Opechancanough leads first uprising in Virginia Barbados colonists grow sugarcane with slave labor Starvation plagues Jamestown Pueblo Revolt John Rolfe begins to plant tobacco in Virginia Bacon’s Rebellion Virginia becomes royal colony
3. 1619
-------- First Africans arrive in Virginia Colony of Maryland founded Slave labor system emerges in Carolina and Chesapeake colonies Navigation Act requires colonial products be shipped only to English ports; Virginia law defines slavery as inherited, lifelong servitude Opechancanough leads first uprising in Virginia Barbados colonists grow sugarcane with slave labor Starvation plagues Jamestown Pueblo Revolt John Rolfe begins to plant tobacco in Virginia Bacon’s Rebellion Virginia becomes royal colony
4. 1622
-------- First Africans arrive in Virginia Colony of Maryland founded Slave labor system emerges in Carolina and Chesapeake colonies Navigation Act requires colonial products be shipped only to English ports; Virginia law defines slavery as inherited, lifelong servitude Opechancanough leads first uprising in Virginia Barbados colonists grow sugarcane with slave labor Starvation plagues Jamestown Pueblo Revolt John Rolfe begins to plant tobacco in Virginia Bacon’s Rebellion Virginia becomes royal colony
5. 1624
-------- First Africans arrive in Virginia Colony of Maryland founded Slave labor system emerges in Carolina and Chesapeake colonies Navigation Act requires colonial products be shipped only to English ports; Virginia law defines slavery as inherited, lifelong servitude Opechancanough leads first uprising in Virginia Barbados colonists grow sugarcane with slave labor Starvation plagues Jamestown Pueblo Revolt John Rolfe begins to plant tobacco in Virginia Bacon’s Rebellion Virginia becomes royal colony
6. 1632
-------- First Africans arrive in Virginia Colony of Maryland founded Slave labor system emerges in Carolina and Chesapeake colonies Navigation Act requires colonial products be shipped only to English ports; Virginia law defines slavery as inherited, lifelong servitude Opechancanough leads first uprising in Virginia Barbados colonists grow sugarcane with slave labor Starvation plagues Jamestown Pueblo Revolt John Rolfe begins to plant tobacco in Virginia Bacon’s Rebellion Virginia becomes royal colony
7. 1640s
-------- First Africans arrive in Virginia Colony of Maryland founded Slave labor system emerges in Carolina and Chesapeake colonies Navigation Act requires colonial products be shipped only to English ports; Virginia law defines slavery as inherited, lifelong servitude Opechancanough leads first uprising in Virginia Barbados colonists grow sugarcane with slave labor Starvation plagues Jamestown Pueblo Revolt John Rolfe begins to plant tobacco in Virginia Bacon’s Rebellion Virginia becomes royal colony
8. 1660
-------- First Africans arrive in Virginia Colony of Maryland founded Slave labor system emerges in Carolina and Chesapeake colonies Navigation Act requires colonial products be shipped only to English ports; Virginia law defines slavery as inherited, lifelong servitude Opechancanough leads first uprising in Virginia Barbados colonists grow sugarcane with slave labor Starvation plagues Jamestown Pueblo Revolt John Rolfe begins to plant tobacco in Virginia Bacon’s Rebellion Virginia becomes royal colony
9. 1670– 1700
-------- First Africans arrive in Virginia Colony of Maryland founded Slave labor system emerges in Carolina and Chesapeake colonies Navigation Act requires colonial products be shipped only to English ports; Virginia law defines slavery as inherited, lifelong servitude Opechancanough leads first uprising in Virginia Barbados colonists grow sugarcane with slave labor Starvation plagues Jamestown Pueblo Revolt John Rolfe begins to plant tobacco in Virginia Bacon’s Rebellion Virginia becomes royal colony
10. 1676
-------- First Africans arrive in Virginia Colony of Maryland founded Slave labor system emerges in Carolina and Chesapeake colonies Navigation Act requires colonial products be shipped only to English ports; Virginia law defines slavery as inherited, lifelong servitude Opechancanough leads first uprising in Virginia Barbados colonists grow sugarcane with slave labor Starvation plagues Jamestown Pueblo Revolt John Rolfe begins to plant tobacco in Virginia Bacon’s Rebellion Virginia becomes royal colony
11. 1680
-------- First Africans arrive in Virginia Colony of Maryland founded Slave labor system emerges in Carolina and Chesapeake colonies Navigation Act requires colonial products be shipped only to English ports; Virginia law defines slavery as inherited, lifelong servitude Opechancanough leads first uprising in Virginia Barbados colonists grow sugarcane with slave labor Starvation plagues Jamestown Pueblo Revolt John Rolfe begins to plant tobacco in Virginia Bacon’s Rebellion Virginia becomes royal colony