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Roanoke
In 1587, John White, led about 100 people to Roanoke and settled there. This settlement became a part of North Carolina. White returned to England for three years for supplies. But when he returned, everyone had disappeared. The only thing left for him when he returned was the word, "CROATOAN" carved into a tree. There was no logical conclusion as to where all the people went. Roanoke became known as the lost colony.
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Jamestown
In 1606, a group of englishmen were sent by King James I to establish an english colony. But little did they know that Jamestown was filled with disease, famine, and violence with the natives. Jamestown was established in 1607.
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House of Burgesses
In 1619, the House of Burgesses was established by Governor George Yeardley. The house was a representative assembly located in colonial Virginia. It granted supplies and originated laws. The house also stood as a supreme court to renew the county courts.
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Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact is an important document. It represented the first official framework of government written and enacted in the territory of what is now the United States. The document was designed on the English ship, the Mayflower, on November 21, 1620. William Bradford and William Brewster drafted the Mayflower Compact.
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Great Puritan Migration
During September in 1620, the separatists traveled to the new world on The Mayflower, a rented cargo ship, and it landed off the Massachusetts coast in November. They established Plymouth Colony, which was New England's first colony.
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Salutary Neglect
Salutary Neglect was a Brittish government policy created in the early to mid 18th century regarding its North American colonies. It was created by Robert Walpole. The goal was to relax the enforcement of trade laws and strict regulations.
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New York
In 1624, the Dutch settled in New Netherland. A man named the Duke of York became the owner of New Netherland and renamed it New York. New York became the first city in the colonies to receive a royal charter.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled by a group of about 1000 puritan refugees from England in 1630. It was one of the original English settlements in present-day Massachusetts. The governor was John Winthrop.
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Maryland
In 1632, King Charles I of England granted a charter to George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, giving him proprietary rights to a region in exchange for a share of the income derived from the land. The territory was named Maryland in remembrance and honor of Henrietta Maria, the queen consort of Charles I.
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Rhode Island
The colony of Rhode Island was founded by five separate and combative groups in 1635. The colony was originally named "Roodt Eylandt". The name means 'red island' and it refers to the red clay that Adriaen Block reported there. A few of the colony's founders were Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson, William Coddington, William Arnold, and Samuel Gorton.
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Connecticut
Connecticut was founded in 1636 by Thomas Hooker, an English yeoman and clergyman. The founding began when the Dutch established the first trading post on the Connecticut River valley in what is now the town of Hartford.
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Maryland Toleration Act
This documents purpose was to provide and instill protection for Catholic Marylanders and set a precedent to which others could refer. The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 did not bring complete religious freedom. he act was a pragmatic solution to a serious problem. The Catholics in originally Catholic Maryland had become a minority of the population although still power1ul politically.
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Carolina
King Charles II granted the territory of Carolina to a number of supporters who had helped him regain the throne. The charter of 1663 granted not only the soil of Carolina but extensive rights of governance as well.
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Bacons Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion began with a local dispute with the Doeg Indians on the Potomac River. Sir William Berkeley, the governor, persuaded the General Assembly to adopt a plan that isolated the Susquehannocks while bringing in Indian allies on Virginia's side.
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Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania colony was founded in 1682 by the English Quaker William Penn. It was one of the 13 original British colonies that became the United States of America. Penn was given a land grant from King Charles II, who owed money to Penn's deceased father. Penn's goal with Pennsylvania was to create a colony that allowed for freedom of religion.
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Salem Witch Trials
The Salem Witch Trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, started acting crazy and witch like. The symptoms were fits of rage, uncontrollable screaming, etc. Hysteria spread fast. A special court convened in Salem to hear the cases.
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Great Awakening/Enlightenment
The Great Awakening of 1700 was a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America. Jonathan Edwards was one of the chief fathers of this revival. He had preached sermons that very easily scared people back into faith.
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Albany Plan
The point of the Albany Plan was to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. Representatives of the colonial governments adopted the Albany Plan during a larger meeting known as the Albany Congress. The Albany Congress began on June 19, 1754.
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French-Indian War
The French and Indian war of 1754 was a fight between France and Great Britain. The end result determined control of the vast colonial territory of North America. This war began over the specific issue of open for trade and settlement by Virginians and Pennsylvanians.
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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. The purpose of it was to appease Native Americans. That could be done by checking the encroachment of European settlers on their lands. A boundary line, known as the proclamation line, was created. It seperates the British colonies on the Atlantic coast from American Indian lands west of the Appalachian Mountains.
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