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Roanoke
The Roanoke Colony also known as the Lost Colony, was the Sir Walter Raleigh first attempt at founding a permanent English settlement in North America. Roanoke Island in what is today's Dare County, North Carolina. -
Jamestown
first permanent English settlement in North America, located near present-day Williamsburg, Virginia. Established on May 14, 1607, the colony gave England its first foothold in the European competition for the New World, which had been dominated by the Spanish since the voyages of Christopher Columbusin the late 15th century. -
House of Burgesses
Which was designed to encourage private investment and immigration and make conditions more agreeable to the existing inhabitants. Virginia Company officials adopted English Common Law as the basis of their system in the Virginia colony. The provisions included a system of self government which included the capacity for the colonists to select representatives to govern in a legislative assembly. -
The Great Migration
English migration to Massachusetts consisted of a few hundred pilgrims who went to Plymouth Colony in the 1620s and between 13,000 and 21,000 emigrants who went to the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1630 and 1642.The Puritans left England primarily due to religious persecution but also for economic reasons as well.
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Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower was an English ship that famously transported the first English Puritans, known ... The Pilgrims signed the Mayflower Compact prior to leaving the ship and establishing Plymouth Colony -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Massachusetts Bay Colony became the first English chartered colony whose board of governors did not reside in England. This independence helped the settlers to maintain their Puritan religious practices without interference from the king, Archbishop Laud, or the Anglican Church. -
Maryland
The Province of Maryland was an English and later British colony in North America that existed from 1632 until 1776, when it joined the other twelve of the Thirteen Colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of Maryland. -
Connecticut
Thomas Hooker and his followers look very much like any pioneers, their primary motivation was not a desire for new land. They definitely did not set out to found a new state. They saw themselves as God’s people, and they set out as a congregation to establish their church -
Rhode Island
Roger Williams founded the colony in 1636. He guaranteed religious and political freedom. Religious refugees from the Massachusetts Bay Colony settled in Rhode Island. It was one of the most liberalcolonies. -
Maryland Toleration Act
granted religious freedom to all who believed in the Trinity and that Jesus was the son of God. "...no person or persons whatever within this Province, or the islands, ports, harbors, creeks, or havens belonging to it, who professes to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth be any way troubled, harrassed or embarrassed for ...his or her religion..."
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Carolina
In 1663, Charles II was king of England. He gave the land south of Virginia to eight proprietors. These men founded the Carolina colony. They named it after the king's father.
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New York
First permanent Dutch settlement was established at Fort Orange (now Albany). One year later Peter Minuit purchased Manhattan Island from the Indians for trinkets worth about 60 Dutch guilders and founded the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. -
Bacon's rebellion
The colony's dismissive policy as it related to the political challenges of its western frontier, along with other challenges including leaving Bacon out of his inner circle. -
Pennsylvania
The founding of Pennsylvania, about 40,000 square miles, was confirmed to William Penn under the Great Seal on January 5, 1681. Penn induced people to emigrate, the terms being 40 shillings per hundred acres, and "shares" of 5,000 acres for 100 pounds. These generous terms induced many to set out for the New World.
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Salutary Neglect
policy of the British government from the early to mid-18th century regarding its North American colonies under which trade regulations for the colonies were laxly enforced and imperial supervision of internal colonial affairs was loose as long as the colonies remained loyal to the British government and contributed to the economic profitability of Britain.
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Salem witch trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused, nineteen of whom were found guilty and executed by hanging. -
The Great Awakenng/Enlightenment
Jonathan Edwards, the Yale minister who refused to convert to the Church of England, became concerned that New Englanders were becoming far too concerned with worldly matters. "God was an angry judge, and humans were sinners!" he declared. He spoke with such fury and conviction that people flocked to listen
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Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader and a delegate from Pennsylvania. -
French- Indian War
It pitted the colonies of British America against those of New France. Both sides were supported by military units from their parent countries, as well as by American Indian allies. -
The Proclamation of 1763
The British issued a proclamation, mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. Document that stated that new colonial settlers were not allowed to settle past a land mark. protecting the native and colonial settler from unneeded attacks.
https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of
