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Roanoke
Roanoke was the first British settlement in 1587. It was also called "the lost colony". This is because hundreds of men, women, and their children settled in Roanoke after they discovered this deserted island. They were led by John White during this time. https://www.outerbanks.org/listing/the-lost-colony/260/?msclkid=0a63bcce29c4123c8b36e15965b74b28&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=MI%20Outer%20Banks%20Events&utm_term=roanoke%20colony&utm_content=The%20Lost%20Colony -
Jamestown
The first permanent British settlement. On May 14, 1607, a group of almost 100 members of The Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. And the settlement was soon named "Jamestown". https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/jamestown -
House of Burgesses
The house of Burgesses was the first legislature made up of elected representatives. The general assembly was established by governer George Yeardley at Jamestown on July 30,1619, where only property could vote to elect the representatives. Later in 1643, governor Sir William Berkeley split the House of Burgesses off as a separate chamber of the thereafter bicameral assembly. https://www.britannica.com/topic/House-of-Burgesses -
Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower. When Pilgrims and other settlers set out on the ship for America in 1620, they intended to lay anchor in northern Virginia. https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/mayflower-compact -
New York
Settled by the Dutch in 1624. Also called "New Amsterdam" when discovered. Henry Hudson first explored the area in 1611 for the dutch East India Company. The British took control and between 1652 and 1774 the Dutch and British fought 3 wars to win over the land. In 1664 the Dutch surrendered and the territory was renamed "Duke of York", after the brother of King Charles the second who received charter for the territory. https://www.landofthebrave.info/new-york-colony.htm -
Great Migration
The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. African Americans were taken from their homes and put into slavery. https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/great-migration -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
This was one of the original settlements in present day Massachusetts. The intention was evidently to make a colony with stockholders, officers, and directors. The Massachusetts bay colony was obtained by King Charles the second. https://www.britannica.com/place/Massachusetts-Bay-Colony -
Maryland
A southern colony settled by Lord Baltimore in 1632. He convinced King Charles to grant him 100 acres for catholics like himself to settle. Maryland was settled as a "proprietary" colony, meaning the owner of the colony was the ruler not the king or queen. https://www.britannica.com/place/Maryland-state/The-colony -
Rhode Island
Rhode Island is a New England colony settled by Roger Williams and his supporters in 1635. He founded Rhode island where there was no religious persecution of christians. https://www.landofthebrave.info/rhode-island-colony.htm -
Maryland toleration act
The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was a law mandating religious tolerance for yayTrinitarian Christians. It was passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony, in St. Mary's City. https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/868/maryland-toleration-act-of-1649 -
Carolina
A southern colony settled by supporters of King Charles in 1663. Cash crops flourished in Carolina. North Carolinians were small tobacco farmers, not plantation builders. South Carolinians developed a low-country agricultural system that relied upon slave labor to grow and export rice, cotton, and indigo. -
Bacon's rebellion
This was the first colonial rebellion against royal control. Named after Nathaniel Bacon who raised an unauthorized militia of indentured slaves to fight against and attack the Native Americans. https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/bacon_s_rebellion_1676-1677 -
Pennsylvania
The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was founded in English North America by William Penn on March 4, 1682 as dictated in a royal charter granted by King Charles II. Penn established the colony as a "holy experiment". https://www.landofthebrave.info/pennsylvania-colony.htm -
Salem Witch trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. Over 200 people were accused, 19 of the women were found guilty and executed by hanging. Young girls in the small village of Salem made accusations of them being played with witchcraft. https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/salem-witch-trials -
Great Awakening/ Enlightenment
During the eighteenth century, the British Atlantic experienced an outburst of Protestant revivalism known as the First Great Awakening. During the First Great Awakening, evangelists came from the ranks of several Protestant denominations such as Congregationalists, Anglicans and Presbyterians. They rejected what appeared to be sterile, formal versions of worship. http://sites.austincc.edu/caddis/enlightenment-great-awakening/ -
Connecticut
Called "the land of the brave". It was founded in 1636 by Thomas Hooker as well as other colonists. Connecticut was also one of the original 13 colonies. It was first classified as a New England colony. The Province of Connecticut was an English colony in North America that existed from 1636 until 1776, when it joined the other 12 of the 13 colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of Connecticut. https://www.landofthebrave.info/connecticut-colony.htm -
Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, led by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/albany-plan -
French- Indian War
The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years’ War. The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/french-indian-war -
Proclamation of 1763
After Britain won the Seven Years' War and gained land in North America, it issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia. The Treaty of Paris, which marked the end of the French and Indian War, granted Britain a great deal of valuable North American land. https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of -
Salutary Neglect
Salutary neglect was Britain's unofficial policy, initiated by prime minister Robert Walpole , to relax the enforcement of strict regulations, particularly trade laws, imposed on the American colonies late in the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth centuries. It went unnamed until March 22, 1775, when Edmund Burke cited British officials' "wise and salutary neglect" as the prime factor in the booming commercial success of the country's North American holdings.
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