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Roanoke
The colony of Roanoke was founded by the English in 1584. Three years later nothing was there and all of the people were gone. -
Jamestown
In 1607, 104 English men and boys arrived in North America to start a settlement. On May 13 they picked Jamestown, Virginia for their settlement, which was named after their King, James I. The settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America. -
Salutary Neglect
Salutary neglect was an unofficial British policy of non-enforcement of trade regulations on their American colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries. The purpose was to maximize economic output amongst the colonists while maintain some form of control. -
The House of Burgesses
The house of Burgesses was an assembly in Jamestown for the election of the first democratic legislative body in the British American Colonies. -
The Mayflower
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. -
The Great Migration
over 20,000 men, woman, and children moved to the new Massachusetts Bay Colony that was lead by John Winthrop, in 1630 -
The Massachusetts Bay Colony
The purpose of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was to set up a society that would accord with what they believed to be God's wishes. -
Connecticut
This colony was known as the river colony until March 3 1633. John Winthrop Jr. wanted the Dutch's land but was struggling to get it. -
Maryland Tolerant Act
Long before the First Amendment was adopted, the assembly of the Province of Maryland passed “An Act Concerning Religion,” also called the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649. The act was meant to ensure freedom of religion for Christian settlers of diverse persuasions in the colony. -
Maryland
In March 1655, the 2nd Lord Baltimore sent an army under Governor William Stone to put down this revolt. Near Annapolis, his Roman Catholic army was decisively defeated by a Puritan army in the Battle of the Severn. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was about an armed rebellion held by Virginia settlers in 1676 to 1677. The settlers were led by Nathaniel Bacon. -
Salem Witch Trials
In 1692 to 1693 there were many woman killed for being accused of being witches. The result of this was being tied to a log to see if they float. Another way that they tested if women were witches is if they could read from the bible. -
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania had many border disputes with other colonies. Portions of northern Pennsylvania were claimed by New York and Connecticut, the exact southern border was in dispute with Maryland, and parts of the southwest were claimed by both Pennsylvania and Virginia. -
Carolina
In 1712, there was officially one governor for all of Carolina, but an additional deputy governor for the north, creating North and South Carolina. -
The Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s. The movement came at a time when the idea of secular rationalism was being emphasized, and passion for religion had grown stale. -
The French and 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. -
Albany Plan
The Albany Plan is about placing the British North American Colonies under a more centralized government. They wanted to do this because of a break down in negotiations between the colony of New York and the Mohawk nation. -
Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation Line of 1763 was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide. Decreed on October 7, 1763, the Proclamation Line prohibited Anglo-American colonists from settling on lands acquired from the French following the French and Indian War. -
Rhode Island
Rhode Island was among the first and most enthusiastic colonies to resist British rule, having been the first to call for a continental congress in 1774 and the first, in 1776, to eliminate an oath of allegiance to the British crown that had been required of colonial officials. -
New York
In New York 1941 the U.S.A was suddenly attacked by the Empire of Japan. This is known as the Pearl Harbor Attack.