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Roanoke, The lost colony
In 1587 100 men and women arrived on Roanoke island under the leadership of John White. Soon after they settled White returned to England to get more supplies. It took White three years to get back to Roanoke. When he arrived the settlement was deserted and the only thing that was left was the word "Croatoans" carved into a tree. -
Jamestown
The Virginia Company of London established a colony along Virginia in 1607. The winter was very harsh and they had a rough start with only 38 of the settlers surviving. John Smith the leader of Jamestown said "If you didn't work you didn't eat". John Rolfe married Pocahontas and they experimented with tobacco, Which would become Jamestown's largest export. -
House of Burgesses
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Great Migration
English migration to Massachusetts included of a few hundred pilgrims who went to Plymouth Colony in the 1620s and between 13,000 and 21,000 emigrants who went to the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1630 and 1642.
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Mayflower Compact
This document established the foundation of the colony’s government. The first self government plan in the colonies. -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Puritans settles in Massachusetts bay colony with a charter of kings Charles. Led by John Winthrop. -
Maryland
Lord Baltimore convinced king Charles to give him 100 million acres of land to persecuted Catholics. Maryland was a proprietary colony When Baltimore died his son took over and gave 100 million acres to all married couples that settled there.
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Connecticut
Thomas Hooker founded Connecticut. Founded by Puritans. Not tolerance for other religions. It was a New England colony https://www.thoughtco.com/connecticut-colony-103870 -
Rhode Island
Founded by Roger Williams when he was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for speaking against the government authorities punishing religion. He settled on Native American land
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Toleration act
Granted Relgious freedom to all people that lived in Maryland. -
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. https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/salutary_neglect -
Carolina
Settled in 1663. Settlers grew cash crops because of its easy access to the West Indies. Very intensive slave labor in the southern colonies like Carolina. -
New York
New York was founded by the Duke of York in 1664 and later a royal colony in 1685. After British gained control the settlers could keep there land. 1652 the British and Dutch fought many naval battles but eventually the Dutch surrendered.
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Bacon's rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon organized an unauthorized militia to attack natives along the Virginia frontier. Significance of the rebellion, it was the first rebellion of royal control -
Pennsylvania
Founded by William Penn when King Charles granted a charter to him. It was a holy experiment where all-male settlers received fifty acres and the right to vote. -
Salem Witch trials
It was a wave of mass hysteria in Salem village, Massachusetts. Young girls claimed they were possess by the devil and they accused other women of witchcraft. 150 people were imprisoned and some were hung and one person was crushed. -
The Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards, the Yale minister who refused to convert to the Church of England, became concerned that New Englanders were becoming far too concerned with worldly matters. The main goal of the sermons was to scare people back to Christianity and going to church. http://www.ushistory.org/us/7b.asp -
Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized. The Albany Congress formed a committee that was tasked to carefully consider the different plans and proposals.
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French-Indian War
The French-Indian War was fought between Britain and France, along with colonists and allied Indian groups, They fought for control of land in North America. https://www.thoughtco.com/the-french-indian-war-1222018 -
The 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. http://www.ushistory.org/us/9a.asp
