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AD 1520–24 Mid-Atlantic coast peoples meet foreign explorer On the Atlantic coast, Wampanoag, Narragansett, and Lenape (Delaware) peoples encounter Giovanni da Verrazano, ... |
AD 1620 English Pilgrims settle on Wampanoag land Pilgrims settle at what is now known as Plymouth, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod near the abandoned village ... |
AD 1620 Pequot trade for iron pots to cook traditional foods The Pequot, who live near what is now known as the Mystic River in Connecticut, get food from the rich ... |
AD 1621 Wampanoag people save Pilgrims The Wampanoag people, the “People of the First Light,” are responsible for saving the Pilgrims from starvation ... |
AD 1630 Puritans move farther onto Wampanoag land Thousands of English Puritans settle in what is now known as Massachusetts, moving inland and displacing ... |
AD 1637 English settlers burn Pequot village English settlers, working with the Narragansetts and Mohegans, set fire to a fortified Pequot village ... |
AD 1638 Puritans force Quinnipiac onto the first reservation Puritans near what is now known as New Haven, Connecticut, establish the first reservation. They force ... |
AD 1675 Metacomet assassinated; King Philip’s War begins In the Northeast, colonists are aggressively encroaching on Wampanoag land and trying to establish settlements. ... |
1763 Treaty of Paris ends war; Britain claims Native lands England and France end the Seven Years’ War (1756–63, also called the French and Indian War). In the ... |
1763 Indian Proclamation Line ignored; settlers move west After the Seven Years’ War, the British Parliament creates the Indian Proclamation Line of 1763, which ... |