CHRONOLOGY

ca. 1600–1650

  • – Yeoman farmers predominate in the Chesapeake region.

1644

  • – Opechancanough leads second uprising.

1660

  • – Navigation Act requires that colonial products be shipped only to English ports.

1661–1676

  • – No elections are called in the House of Burgesses.

1670

  • – House of Burgesses outlaws voting by poor men.

1676

  • – Bacon’s Rebellion.