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Chapter 2 · By the end of the sixteenth century, England had crushed the Irish uprising. · 1577- Drake circumnavigated the globe. · 1588- England defeated the Spanish armada. · 1603- James I became the king of England. · American land had been greatly altered by Europeans crops and livestock by the beginning of the seventeenth century. · North America was still greatly unexplored by the Europeans by the 1600’s. · 1604- England signed a peace treaty with Spain. · England did this so it could have its opportunity for colonization in the Americas. · 1607- Virginia colony was founded in Jamestown. · John Rolfe perfected the tobacco culture in Virginia. · 1614- The first Angelo-Powhatan War ends after Pocahontas married Rolfe. · 1619- The first Africans were brought to Jamestown. · 1619- The House of Burgesses was established. · 1624- Virginia was established as a royal colony. · 1634- Maryland was made a colony. · 1640’s- Large-scale slave-labor was established in the English West-Indies because it was a good place for growing sugarcane. · Sugarcane is a rich man’s crop because it is hard to plant and harvest. Tobacco is a poor man’s crop because you can plant it anywhere. · 1644- The second Anglo-Powhatan War started and ended. · The second war ended with a peace treaty stating that the natives will assimilate to the Virginians. · 1649- the Act of Toleration was established in Maryland. · 1649- Charles I is beheaded and Cromwell was made king. · 1660- Charles II reclaims the throne. · Barbados adopted the slave code. · 1711-1713- The Tuscarora War in North Carolina. · 1733- Georgia was made a colony, finishing the thirteen original colonies.