1. Key Period 2 Timeline
Jordy Araya

2. John Rolfe creates a profitable crop of tobacco Jamestown is founded
Pilgrims arrive in Plymouth

3. Maryland Toleration Act
Mayflower Compact
Bacon’s Rebellion

4. Salem Witch Trials
Great Awakening
Albany Plan . ’s

5. Periodization and Turning Point
1607 was the founding of the first British Colony in America.
1752 marked the turn in America’s drive for independence.
The creation of tobacco as a cash crop served as a turning point in this period. Without tobacco the Jamestown colony would have failed and we may not even be here today.