1660
- The Middle Passage shaped Africans' experiences of arrival
- Indian slave trade emerges in South Carolina
- First Mennonites arrive in Pennsylvania (1683)
1690
- Quakers emigrate to Pennsylvania and New Jersey
- Second wave of Germans arrives in Pennsylvania, Shenandoah Valley
1720
- Scots-Irish begin migrating to Pennsylvania (c. 1720)
- Parliament charters Georgia (1732)
- Penns make Walking Purchase from the Delawares (1737)
1750
- 40,000 Germans and Swiss emigrate to Pennsylvania (1749-1756)
- Anglo-Americans pushing onto backcountry lands