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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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The first Puritans arrived
- Came to practice religious beliefs,but didn't want to break away from the Church of England like the Pilgrims. *They wanted to make the church more pure so they were called the Puritans. *They built Salem, a village on Massachusetts Bay.
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John Winthrop arrives
- John Winthrop leads 2nd group of Puritans to Massachusetts Bay colony.
- Winthrop's group named thier settlement Boston, after a town in England.
- John Winthrop was elected governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Maryland is founded
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Dissagreements with church and government in Massachusetts
- Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams were two people wo believed the Puritan church should separate from colony's government.
- Puritan leaders voted to expel Williams from Massachusetts
- Conneticut is founded
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Puritans founded Harvard not known as Harvard University
- First college in the English colonies
- Rhode Island is founded
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Anne Hutchinson is forced to leave Massachusetts
- Both Williams and Hutchinson started settlements that joined to form the Rhode Island Colony.
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Deleware is founded
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Toleration Act
- Maryland passes the Toleration Act. This act gave religious freedom to all Christians.
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New York and New Jersey is founded
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King Phillip's War
- Disagreements over land led to war between the colonists and Native Americans.
- Metacomet or King Phillip, the leader of the Wampanoagg, united many tribes to fight against.
- Hundreds of colonists and thousands of Native Americans, including Metacomet were killed.
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Pennsylvania is founded
- William Penn, an English Quaker, got approval to start a colony. He named it Pennsylvania.
- He also became the owner or proprietor of Deleware.
- Penn wrote The Frame of Government of Pennsylvani
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Middle Passage
- Trading ships carrying goods and raw matireals also carried enslaved people from central and western Africa.
- Middle Passage- Millions of enslaved Africans were placed on ships and forced to travel across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the English colonies.
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North and South Carolina
- Carolina was split into two colonies- North and South Carolina
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Great Awakening
- New religious movement begins. It "awakend", or renewed, many people's interest in religion.
- Poor people, women, and enslaved people even started taking part in religious gatherings.
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Georgia is founded
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Fort Mose
- Fort Mose was the first free African settlement in North America.
- Some were sat free by their owners; others bought their freedom.
