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Roanoke
Roanoke was founded in 1587 before Jamestown and the pilgrims. John White was put in charge but had to sail back to England for more supplies. In 1590, when he returned, White found all the settlers had disappeared.
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Jamestown
About 100 colonists left for the New World and landed on a peninsula on the James River. Aboard the ship was John Smith, a former mercenary accused of insubordination, or defying orders, by others on the ship.
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New York
The Crescent came to anchor within New Jersey about seventeen miles from the present city of New York. Aboard was Henry Hudson, an English captain in the service of the Dutch East India Company. He was on a voyage for discovering a northern passage to India. He failed but proceeded along the shores of Newfoundland, eventually anchoring in Sandy Hook.
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House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was modeled after English parliament and was established in 1629. It is the first legislative assembly in America. It was used to create laws, rules, and taxes.
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Great Migration
Separatists traveled to the New World on a cargo ship called the Mayflower. They landed off the coasts of Massachusetts and established the Plymouth Colony.
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Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower set sail from Plymouth, a port on the southern coast of England, and nearly 40 of the 102 passengers were Protestant Separatists. They called themselves “Saints”. 41 of the Saints drafted and signed a document they called the Mayflower Compact. This Compact promised to create “just and equal laws.”
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Massachusets Bay Colony
Settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England. They were under John Winthrop and Thomas Dudley. The Massachusetts Bay Company had gotten a charter empowering the company to trade and colonize in New England between the Charles and Merrimack rivers.
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Rhode Island
Roger Williams founded the colony. He guaranteed religious and political freedom. Refugees from the Massachusetts Bay Colony who sought freedom of religion settled in Rhode Island. Rhode Island was the home of the first Baptist church, the first Jewish synagogue, and one of the first Quaker meetinghouses. Later, it would became the first state to declare its independence from Great Britain.
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Conneticut
The Connecticut Colony, known as the River Colony, was established March 3, 1636. The English settlers under John Winthrop Jr. fought with the Dutch until they eventually gained control over their land and set up a permanent colony.
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Maryland Toleration Act
Passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony. It was the second law requiring religious tolerance in the British North American colonies. Also first government to separate church and state.
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Carolina
King Charles II gave the land south of Virginia to eight proprietors. These men founded the Carolina colony. They named it after the king’s father, Charles I.
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Bacons Rebellion
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Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Colony was founded by William Penn at Philadelphia in 1682. It was founded for the Quakers religious freedoms but it was not dominated by only one religion. It was often call the breadbasket because it grew so many crops especially wheat.
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Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials began after a group of girls claimed to be possessed by the devil and falsely accused local women of witchcraft. Over the next several months, more than 150 men, women and children were accused. People were hung or pressed to death (http://www.history.com/topics/salem-witch-trials -
Great Awakening/ Enlightenment
The Great Awakening was a reaction against the Enlightenment. The Great Awakening was the first major event that all the colonies could share, helping to break down differences between them. The Enlightenment was a movement in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were synthesized into a worldview.
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Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of union was a plan, suggested by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Hutchinson, to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies. The Plan, although not carried out, was the first proposal to come from all the colonies as a whole. Despite it's failure, the Albany Plan served as a model for future attempts at a union
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French-Indian War
Also known as the Seven Years' War, The French and Indian War began in 1756 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war gave Great Britain Canada from France and Florida from Spain, but gave France the West Indian sugar islands and gave Spain Louisiana. American colonies were strengthened and opened Mississippi Valley for westward expansion.
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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclaimation of 1763 declared the 13 colonies couldn't move past the Appellations. The British issued the proclamation, mainly intended to keep away from the Indians and protecting the colonies from starting another war they couldn't afford. Settlers were not happy.
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Salutary Neglect
Salutary neglect was a policy created to relax the enforcement of regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies. It enabled the American colonies to prosper by trading with non-British groups, and then to spend that wealth on British-made goods, while at the same time providing Britain with raw materials for manufacturing.
https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Salutary_Neglect
