Colonial America timeline.

Called the Lost Colony and was an early settlement established on Roanoke Island of the shore of North Carolina. The colony was financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh. A group of people settled on Roanoke Island of the leader John White. Soon after they settled on Roanoke, John went to England to get more supplies. When he arrived the settlement was deserted. Their goals to settling to Roanoke were to find gold and be the first British settlement.
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Virginia Company of London established a colony along the coast of Virginia. John Smith emerged as Jamestown leader. The colonists suffered through a brutal winter, 38 of the 150 settles survived. In 1612, John Rolfe experimented with growing tobacco and developed Virginia's first profitable export. Tobacco was labor intensive, but very profitable. Indentured servants first used to work the fields and cure the tobacco. In March 1622, Native Americans killed 25% of colonists in Jamestown -notes

Colony founded by Puritans and don't tolerate other religions. Adriaen Block became the first to discover Connecticut Valley. The settlers were Dutch and these settlements combined to form the Connecticut Colony in 1633, founded by Thomas Hooker. Weather made it difficult for disease to thrive and they weren't able to have many crops. The landscape was hilly and rocky which made it impossible for them to grow crops. http://www.softschools.com/facts/13_colonies/connecticut_colony_facts/2034/

The first legislature made up of elected representatives in North America was established at Jamestown. Only property owners could vote to elect representatives to the House of Burgesses. In 1624, the debt-ridden Virginia Company's charter was revoked. Virginia became a royal colony under King James I. Once Governor George Yeardley arrived in Jamestown in 1619, he gave notice that he would establish a legislative assembly, first met on July 30, 1619 http://www.ushistory.org/us/2f.asp

Puritans left England due to religious persecution and economic reasons. The non-separatist Puritans wanted to remain in the church and reform it. The separatist Puritans felt the church was too corrupt to reform and instead wanted to separate from it. They wanted to go to Virginia so they could create a church free of royal control. Puritans didn't want to create a new church, they just wanted purify the Church of England. https://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-great-puritan-migration/

The Mayflower Compact was signed by 41 English colonists on the Mayflower which established U.S. The Mayflower Compact was to prevent dissent amongst Puritans and non-separatist Pilgrims who had landed at Plymouth a few days earlier. Mayflower Compact was rules for self-governance made by the English settlers who traveled to New World via Mayflower. A colonist who signed the Mayflower Compact was Myles Standish, an English military officer hired to serve as military leader for the colony. -notes

The Dutch first settled along the Hudson river in 1624 and named it the colony of New Amsterdam. In 1664, the English took over and named it New York. Henry Hudson explored the area in 1611 for the Dutch East Indian Company. Residents were free to believe what they want to believe. Called breadbasket colony because of its abundance of wheat crops. Cold winters and warm summers made climate ideal for farming. http://www.history.com/topics/us-states/new-york

Puritans settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1000 Puritans settled in Massachusetts and led by Governor John Winthrop. Puritan laws that governed the colony were tied to beliefs of the Puritan Church. Dissenters were people who didn't follow the Puritan rules and laws. It became the largest and most influential New England colony eventually swallowing up the Plymouth Colony. In 1680s, the king gained control over the colony's government and in 1691, Massachusetts became a royal colony. -notes

The English first settled the colony of Maryland in 1634. King Charles I granted land. It was mostly Catholic. Religious conflict was strong as the American Puritans grew more numerous. Puritans in England were set out to revoke the religious freedoms guaranteed in the founding of the colony. The Maryland Colony was founded by Cecil Calvert, Lord Baltimore and others in 1633 at Baltimore.
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New England colony settled by Roger Williams and his supporters in 1635. Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious views and separation of church and state. He founded Rhode Island to create a colony free of religious persecution of Christians. He settled on land granted to him by the Narragansett tribe. He called the site "Providence Plantation" and made it known that it is a place for religious freedom. https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/rhode-island

The act is known as a beginning of religious freedom. It was designed to protect Trinitarian Christians in the Maryland colony. It provided that "no person or persons whatsoever within this Province... professing to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth be any waits troubled, molested or discountenanced for or in respect of his or her religion nor in the free exercise thereof." https://uscivilliberties.org/legislation-and-legislative-action/4106-maryland-toleration-act-1649.html

In 1663, this defined territory was conveyed by Charles II, King of England. The settlement begun by farmers from Virginia. As the two evolved separately and as their differing geographies and inhabitants drove down conflicting roads, called for a proper split. In 1712, North Carolina & South Carolina became distinct colonies. This settlement was placed by Governor Berkley, under the superintendence of William Drummond. http://www.celebrateboston.com/history/carolinas.htm

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. William Berkley established an army to fight against Bacon and his men. Scholars believe that Bacon had an ulterior motive instead of being upset with Berkeley's refusal to retaliate against the Natives. Bacon and his men attacked and destroyed Jamestown. Rebellion ended after Bacon's death from dysentery.
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Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn as a haven for his fellow Quakers. The grant was one of the largest. Penn quickly established a government based on religious freedom for the Quakers, where they would have a direct relation to God, because the Quakers didn't believe in the rules of the Puritans. Penn was issued a land grant by King Charles II largely because of a significant debt owed to his father. It was named Pennsylvania.
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The Salem Witch Trials were series of witchcraft cases brought before local magistrates in a settlement called Salem which was a part of the Massachusetts Bay colony. People often feared that the Devil was trying to find ways to infiltrate and destroy Christians. The witchcraft hysteria in Salem began when a group of young girls, called “afflicted girls,” fell ill after playing a fortune-telling game and began behaving strangely. https://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-salem-witch-trials/

It was a religious revival in the British American colonies. The revival took place primarily among the Dutch reformed, Congregationalists, Presbyterians, Baptists, and some Anglicans, almost all of whom were Calvinists. Jonathan Edwards, a Northampton Anglican minister, one of chief fathers of the Great Awakening. His message centered on idea that humans were sinners, God was an angry judge. The Great Awakening has been seen, therefore, as a development toward an evangelical Calvinism. -notes

This was a plan to create a unified government for the 13 colonies by Benjamin Franklin. Representatives from seven of the British North American colonies adopted the plan. Although never carried out, the Albany Plan was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government. Many colonial commissioners actually wished to increase imperial authority in the colonies. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/albany-plan

The French-Indian War known as the Seven Years' War was between Britain & France. France's expansion into the Ohio River valley brought conflict with British. The British military effort was hindered by lack of interest at home and France winning the support of Indians. The war ended in 1763 at peace conference with British receiving Canada from France & Florida from Spain. Two European imperialists fight over territory and marked the debut of soldier who would become America's first president.

In 1763, King George III issued a proclamation that forbade colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. He hoped that the result would soothe Native Americans who had sided against him during the recently concluded Seven Years' War. British issued the Proclamation at the end of the French and Indian War to appease Native Americans by checking the encroachment of European settlers on their lands. https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of

Salutary Neglect refers to the unofficial British policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary and trade laws meant to keep American colonies devoted to England. Robert Walpole initiated it to relax enforcement of strict regulations, imposed on the American colonies late in the 17th and early in the 18th centuries. People hoped that Britain, by easing on colonial trade, could focus its attention on European politics. https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/salutary_neglect