British Colonialism

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    British Colonialism

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    Reign of James I

  • Virginia Charter

    The Virginia Company was being assigned land rights to colonists for the purpose of propagating Christian Religion.

  • Founding of Jamestown

    Decided on location of first permanent British settlement in North America, Jamestown, in Virginia

  • House of Burgesses

    First representative assembly

  • Mayflower Compact

    Early form of colonial self-government
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    Reign of Charles I

  • Massachusetts Charter

    King James I granted royal charter to puritan leaders of the New England Company, incorporating them as the Massachusetts Bay Colony

  • Maryland Charter

    This is when they received recognition from the king.

  • Founding of Delaware

  • Rhode Island

    provided royal recognition to the colony of Rhode Island
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    Commonwealth

    England was ruled as a republic following the end of the Second English Civil War

  • First Navigation act

    Designated to tighten the governments control over trade between England and the colonies.
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    Reign of Richard Cromwell

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    Reign of Charles II

  • Connecticut

    it gave the people of Connecticut a clear legal basis for their colony

  • Carolina Charter

  • North Carolina Charter

    Charles II issued a new charter to a group of eight English noblemen, granting them the land of Carolina.

  • Founding of New Jersey

    To attract settlers, both proprietors made generous land offers and allowed religious freedom and an assembly

  • Bacon's Rebellion

    Rebellion against Barkley's government because they resented the economic and political control exercised by a few large planters

  • Pennsylvania Charter

    Royal charter by King Charles II

  • New York Charter

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    Reign of James II

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    Salem Witch Trials

    People living in the Massachusetts, (mostly women) were being accused of doing witch craft, and that got them to be executed

  • Georgia Charter

    Defensive buffer to protect South Carolina

  • Molasses Act

    Act of Parliament of Great Britain which imposed a tax of six pence per gallon on imports of molasses in non-English colonies
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    French and Indian War

    Started because both the French and British wanted to extend their North American colonies into the land west of the Appalachian Mountains

  • Albany Congress

    It as a meeting of representatives sent by the legislators of seven of the thirteen colonies (Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island

  • Pontiac's Rebellion

    It was a number of tribes against the British and the colonists