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Virginia Is Founded
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Massachusetts Is Founded
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New Hampshire Is Founded
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First Puritans Arrive
Came to practice religious beliefs, but did not want to break away from the Church of England like the pilgrims
They wanted to make the church more pure, so they were called Puritans.
They built Salem, a village on Massachusetts Bay. -
John Winthrop Arrives
John Winthrop leads the second group of Puritans to Massachusetts Bay colony
Winthrop's group named their settlement Boston, after a town in England.
John Winthrop is elected govorner of Massachusetts Bay colony -
Maryland Is Founded
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Dissagreements With Church and Government in Massachusetts
Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams were two people who believed that the Puritan church should be separate from the colony's government.
Puritan leaders vote to expel Williams from Massachusetts.
Connecticut is founded -
Puritans Founded Harvard College now known as Havard Univesity
First college in the English colonies.
Rhode Island is founded. -
Anne Hutchinson Is Forced To Leave Massachusetts
Both Williams and Hutchinson started settlements that joined to form the Rhode Island Colony. -
Delaware is founded
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Toleration Act
Maryland passes the Toleration Act. This act gave religious freedom to all Christians -
New York and New Jersey Are Founded
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King Phillip's War
Dissagreements over land led to war between colonists and Native Americans.
Metacomet or King Phillip, the Leader of the Wampanog, united many tribes to fight againdt the colonists.
Hundreds of colonists and thousands of Native Americans, including Metacomet were killed. -
Pennsylvania Is Founded
William Penn, an English Quaker, got and approval to start a colony. He named it Pennsylvania
He also became the owner and proprietor of Delaware.
Penn wrote The Frame of Government of Pensylvania -
Middle Passage
Trading ships could carry goods and raw materials also carried enslaved people from central and western Africa.
Middle Passage - Millions of of enslaved Africans were placed on ships and forced to travel the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the English colonies. -
North and South Carolina
Carolina was split into two colonies - North and South Carolina. -
Great Awakening
New religious movement begins. It "awakened" or renewed, many people's interest in religion.
Poor people, women, and enslaved people even started taking part in religious gatherings. -
Georgia Is Founded
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Fort Mose
Fort Mose was the first free African settlement in Nort America.
Some were set free by their owners; others bought their freedom.