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Roanoke
Sir Walter Raleigh founded Roanoke. We do not know what happened to Roanoke it is also know as the Lost Colony. We think it failed because of being poorly supplied, and the first colonists were hostile toward the Native People. Roanoke was located in what is now called Virginia.
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Jamestown
About 104 settlers called the Virginia Company found Jamestown. They started to build houses and to begin farming they did this because they wanted to make a permanent settlement. It is located in Virginia.
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House of Burgesses
After his arrival in Jamestown in 1619, Governor George Yeardley gave notice that the Virginia colony voted to abolish martial law, and would establish a legislative assembly. The first meeting was in a church in Jamestown, Virginia. In 1624, after falling into debt, the charter was revoked and Virginia became a royal colony under King James I.http://www.ushistory.org/us/2f.asp -
Great Migration
In 1620, a group of puritans left England to avoid the religious persecution they faced. They went to Holland where they made a deal with the Plymouth company that in exchange for paying for their voyage to America, they would give them furs and gold. In September of 1620, they set off on the Mayflower and landed in Massachusetts where they started the first colony in New England
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Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
On the Mayflower were separatist, Puritans, adventurers, and tradesmen. A document was signed on the Mayflower. It was the framework of government. The reason was it would set of rules for self-governance.The Mayflower Compact was signed by the passengers in 1620 before they settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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Salutary Neglect
This was the policy of the British government from 1621 to 1750. The supervision of the colonies were loose as long as the colonies remained loyal to the British government. During the period of salutary neglect, Governors had the power to assemble and dismiss the legislature. They also served as commander in chief for the colony’s military forces. https://www.britannica.com/topic/salutary-neglect -
New York
In 1624, the Dutch settled along the Hudson River, and two years after that they established New Amsterdam. England took over this town and renamed it New York in 1664. New York was one of the 13 colonies and played a large political and strategic role in the American Revolution.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Puritans settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. About 1,000 Puritans settled there and the governor was John Winthrop. This colony became the largest and most influential New England colony. In the 1680s, the king gained control over the colony's government and in 1691, Massachusetts became a royal colony. notes
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Maryland
In 1632, King Charles granted a charter for George Calvert to yield rights to the new world. After settlement, the religious conflict was strong between the American puritans and English puritans. William Stone responded to this by granting an act that ensured religions liberty to all that believed in Jesus. This led to puritans taking over the colony ending with Lord Baltimore losing control of Maryland. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-settlement-of-marylan -
Rhode Island
In 1635 Roger Williams and his supporters settled Rhode Island, he founded the colony after being banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for speaking out against separation of church and state. After that he founded Rhode Island where there was no religious persecution of Christians.
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Connecticut
In 1636, Thomas Hooker, a priest in the Massachusetts colony took his family and some others and built the town Hartford.The Fundamental Order of Connecticut was the first written constitution in North America. Citizenship was based on land ownership, not religion.
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Maryland Toleration Act
The Maryland Toleration Act was a law that mandated the toleration of religions for the Christians. It allowed freedom of worship but put to death anyone that denied the divinity of Jesus. This was the second law requiring religious tolerance in the British North American Colonies. This helped create legal protections for the freedom of religion in the United States. https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/topic/maryland-toleration-act/ -
Carolina
King Charles II granted 8 supporters land in the Carolinas. With easy access to the trade in the West Indies, people settled there to grow cash crops like rice, indigo, and tobacco.These labor intensive crops required a huge labor force. By 1720, African slaves outnumbered European settlers in the Carolinas 2:1. In 1729, Carolina became a royal colony and was split into North and South Carolina. -Southern Colony notes -
Bacons Rebellion
After moving to Virginia, Nathaniel Bacon realized how unfair the governors were to the people. He gathered up a militia and began killing Indians. In 1676, after gathering 500 men, his militia attacked Jamestown, burning it to the ground and terrorizing whatever was left. After bacon died, the rebels disbanded and were defeated. https://www.history.com/news/bacons-rebellion-jamestown-colonial-america -
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was a royal colony founded under a charter given to William Penn as a place for Quakers to settle. This charter was settled in 1681 as a way for King Charles to repay Penn's family as he owed them money.
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Salem witch trials
A wave of hysteria swept through Salem Village, Massachusetts when young girls claimed to be possessed by the devil and when the village started accusing some women of witchcraft. 150 people were imprisoned for witchcraft, 7 died in prison, 19 men and women were found guilty and hung, and 1 person was crushed to death for refusing to testify. The hysteria ended in 1692.
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Great Awakening/Enlightenment
In 1760, a great spiritual revival went through the British American colonies. Pastors would hold sermons to convert unbelievers to the faith, often time scaring them into the faith. So many Americans had been "awakened" that pastors started to set up religious schools and more churches. https://www.ushistory.org/us/7b.asp -
Albany Plan
A plan to create a unified government for the 13 colonies was suggested by Benjamin Franklin at the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York. The Plan was the first important proposal to view all of the colonies as a whole united under one government, although it never was carried out. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/albany-plan -
French-Indian war
The French and Indian War lasted from 1756 to 1763.This was the beginning of hostilities between England and France in the Americas as both were battling over colonial domination in the Americas.
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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by the British at the end of the French and Indian War as a way to please the Natives for the English settlers on their lands. This created the proclamation line, a boundary that separated the English on the east coast from the Natives to the west of the Appalachian mountains. This protected both the Natives and English settlers from attacks from opposite groups.
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