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Roanoke
Established 22 years before Jamestown by England, and 37 years before pilgrims landed in Massachusetts. This colony was found by Sir Walter Raleigh Governed by John White. This colony was the first English colony in the new world. The original colonists died off due to low food supplies and native American attacks. When john white went out to get more supplies for the colony, he returned and the whole settlement was gone.
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Jamestown
On May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. http://www.history.com/topics/jamestown -
Salutary Neglect
"Salutary neglect is an American history term that refers to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salutary_neglect -
House of Burgesses
The house of burgesses was the 1st legislative assembly in the American Colonies. They first met on July 30th 1619, inside of a Church at Jamestown. The people involved were George Yeardly, and 22 burgesses representing 11 plantations. http://www.ushistory.org/us/2f.asp -
Mayflower Compact
"The Mayflower Compact was the first agreement for self-government to be created and enforced in America. On September 16, 1620 the Mayflower, a British ship, with 102 passengers, who called themselves Pilgrims, aboard sailed from Plymouth, England." score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/symbols_freedom/pages/mayflower.html -
New York
On of the original 13 colonies on the east coast. The colony was founded in 1626 by the Duke of York and other colonists on this island of Manhattan. https://www.landofthebrave.info/new-york-colony.htm -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
"In 1628, a group of distinguished Puritan businessmen formed a venture named the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay, which was initially conceived as a profit-making endeavor in the New World. A land grant was received from the Council of New England, the successor to the ineffective Virginia Company of Plymouth, providing rights to the area between the Charles and Merrimack rivers and westward to the Pacific Ocean." http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h572.html -
Carolina
The Province of Carolina[1] was an English and later a British colony of North America. Carolina was founded in what is modern-day North Carolina. Carolina expanded south and, at its greatest extent, nominally included the modern states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi, and parts of modern Florida and Louisiana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Carolina -
Great Puritan Migration
A period in the 17th century which English Puritans migrated from Europe to new England, The Chesapeake, and the West Indies. Between 13,000 and 21,000 people immigrated. http://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-great-puritan-migration/ -
Maryland
The Maryland Colony was founded in 1633 by George Calvert, Lord Baltimore and other colonists, at Baltimore. King Charles I of England specified that the name for the new colony was to be called Maryland in honor of his wife, Queen Henrietta Maria. -
Rhode Island
The Rhode Island Colony was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams and other colonists, such as Anne Hutchinson at Providence. The Rhode Island Colony was classified as one of the New England Colonies. The Province of Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island. https://www.landofthebrave.info/rhode-island-colony.htm -
Connecticut
The colony was founded in 1636 by Thomas Hooker and other colonists in Hartford. The first settlement was in Hartford by dutch colonists who set up a fort/trading post. Another settlement soon went up near Windsor on the Connecticut river. https://www.landofthebrave.info/connecticut-colony.htm -
Maryland Toleration Act
"The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians. It was passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony, in St. Mary's City. It was the second law requiring religious tolerance in the British North American colonies." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_Toleration_Act -
Bacon's Rebellion
This was a small uprising of men led by Nathaniel Bacon in 1676. They attacked the Virginia settlement of Jamestown because of economic problems such as tobacco prices, or the restriction of the English market. https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/bacons-rebellion.htm -
Pennsylvania
"The Pennsylvania Colony was founded in 1682 by William Penn and other colonists. King Charles II of England specified in the charter given to William Penn that the name should be Pennsylvania. This is a combination of the Latin word ' Sylvania ' meaning woodland together with Penn" https://www.landofthebrave.info/pennsylvania-colony.htm -
Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials occurred in Salem Massachusetts from 1692-1693. Around 200 people were accused with involving themselves in witchcraft. 20 people were executed as a result of this. Many of the trials and accusations were unfair and most people were innocent. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/a-brief-history-of-the-salem-witch-trials-175162489/ -
Great Awakening
"The Great Awakening or First Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival that swept Protestant Europe and British America in the 1730s and 1740s. An evangelical and revitalization movement, it left a permanent impact on American Protestantism." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Great_Awakening -
Albany Plan
The Albany plan of union was a plan to give the early American colonies a more centralized government. Representatives met on 1754 and drafted a plan that was never officially carried out. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/albany-plan -
French-Indian War (Seven Years War)
"Also known as the Seven Years’ War, this New World conflict marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France. When France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British declaration of war in 1756." http://www.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-war -
Proclamation of 1763
"The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763
