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Roanoke
Roanoke was the first settlement, and it was established by Ralph Lane. They landed in 1584 and they established a rudimentary settlement and made contact with the local Secotan and Croatan tribes. After some exploration, Barlowe returned to England with two Croatans and gave Raleigh an update on the local geography and politics. Based on this report, which was also corroborated by the Croatans, Raleigh organized a second expedition led by Grenville.
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Jamestown
Jamestown was a colony that got off to a bad start with only 38 of 150 settlers surviving the first winter. Some ways that it was bad were that it was on a swamp, the men refused to work, the winter was really bad, and the native Americans weren't very nice. By 1612, John Rolfe and Pocahontas started growing the cash crop tobacco for profitable export. NOTES -
House of Burgesses
It was the first legislature made up of elected representatives. It was established at Jamestown, and only property owners could vote to elect representatives to it. NOTES -
Puritan Great Migration
In 1620, a group of separatists traveled on the mayflower and landed of the coast of Massachusetts. The first event that happened after they landed was the settling of the Plymouth colony. https://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-great-puritan-migration/ -
Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower was the boat that the Pilgrims (Separatists) took to the new world. there were about 100 passengers, 35 of them were pilgrims. Eventually when they landed they settled in a new area that they called Plymouth. The Mayflower compact established the foundation for the colony's government. It was the first self governed plan in the colonies and it pledged that the decisions would be made by the will of the majority of the colony's men. NOTES -
New York
New York was a middle colony settled by the Dutch. They originally called the area New Netherlands and New York City was called New Amsterdam. The British tried gaining control, but they were still able to keep their land. The Dutch and British fought in three naval wars over the land but eventually the Dutch surrendered. NOTES -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was settled by Puritans and led by governor John Winthrop, who had his famous saying, "We shall be a city upon a hill." The laws that governed the colony were tied to the beliefs from the Puritan church. There were a lot of dissenters and some of them eventually formed other New England colonies. -
Maryland
Maryland was a southern colony that was settled by Lord Baltimore. It was settled as a proprietary colony, which meant that the owner of the colony was the ruler. When he died he gave the control to his son Cecil Calvert. He offered 100 acres of land to every couple that was married and live there. The Toleration Act of 1649 was also made for Rhode Island. NOTES -
Rhode Island
Rhode Island is a New England colony that was settled by Roger Williams and his supporters. Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for speaking against gov authorities punishing religious dissention. There was no religious persecution at Christians in Rhode Island. NOTES -
Conneticut
Connecticut was a New England colony settled by Thomas Hooker. While being established there was fundamental orders that they had for Connecticut. It was the first written constitution in North America, and unlike Massachusetts, citizenship was based on land ownership, not religion. NOTES -
Maryland Toleration Act
The Maryland Toleration act was a new thing that granted religious freedom to all Christians that lived in Maryland. It was started because ever since Lord Baltimore's son Cecil took over, Maryland became mostly protestant, which meant that the mostly Christian area was being taken over by these protestants because of the offer that Cecil gave to married people. NOTES -
Carolinas
Carolina was settled by supporters of King Charles the second and was a southern colony. Carolina was a huge haven for settlers that wanted to grow cash crops. The cash crops that they had were grown for the purpose of selling rather than being grown for just the farmer to use. Eventually they split it up into North and South Carolina. NOTES -
Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon raised an unauthorized militia of indentured servants, slaves and poor farmers to retaliate against a series of Native American attacks on the Virginia frontier. It was the first colonial rebellion against royal control, white farmers and landholders were given more rights, and laws making Africans Hereditary slaves were passed. NOTES -
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was a middle colony that was settled by William Penn. Penn originally established the colony to be a holy experiment, where every male settler received 50 acres and the right to vote. Eventually Penn became a Quaker and Pennsylvania soon became a Quaker haven. NOTES -
Salutary Neglect
The Salutary Neglect was British policy in all 13 colonies that allowed colonists to refuse things that went along or had to do with import and trade. It lasted from the 1690s to the 1760s and it benifited the colonists like helping boost their profits from trade.
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Salem Witch Trials
These trials started when young girls living in Salem Village, Massachusetts claimed that they were possessed by the devil, and this caused a wave of hysteria to sweep through the area. 150 people were imprisoned for witch, 7 died in prison, 19 men and women were found guilty and hung, and 1 person was crushed to death for refusing to testify. NOTES -
Great Awakening/Enlightenment
The Great Awakening was a religious movement that impacted all of the English Colonies in the Americas, and was started by Jonathan Edwards. This all started when most of the colonies religious beliefs weren't as strong as they used to be, so pastors went from town to town to try to bring back their beliefs. The enlightenment was the idea that people didn't agree with what traditional authority had to say, and they made books.
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Albany Plan
The Albany Plan was a plan that wanted to place British American colonies in a more centralized government. On July of 1754, representatives from the colonies came together and figured out a plan that wanted the idea to conceive the colonies as a whole under one government. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/albany-plan -
French-Indian War
This war was sparked with the issue of if the Ohio river valley was part of the British empire or not. A big issue was going on behind that though and that was which culture was gonna dominate over America https://www.britannica.com/event/French-and-Indian-War -
Proclamation of 1763
This was made by the British at the end of the French Indian war to appease the native americans to see the Europeans settlers on their land. It created a boundary that we call the proclamation line that separated British and native American lands.
https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of
