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Carolina http://www.smplanet.com/
Coastal North Carolina was the site of the first English attempts to colonize the New World. Two colonies began in the 1580s. Both were at Roanoke Island, and failed. In the 1650s, the first permanent English settlers in North Carolina actually came from the southern part of the Virginia Colony and settled in the Albemarle area in the northern part of present-day North Carolina. In honor of King Charles I, the name Carolina was given to the colony. -
Roanoke
John White, governor of the Roanoke, returns to England to find the settlement deserted. White and his men found none of the 100 colonists he left behind, and no sign of violence. The only clue to their disappearance was the word “CROATOAN” carved into the tree that had been around the settlement. White took the letters to mean that the colonists had moved to Croatoan Island, but a later search of the island found no settlers. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/roanoke-colony-deserted -
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. Famine, disease and conflict with local Native American tribes in the first two years brought Jamestown to the brink of failure before the arrival of a new group of settlers and supplies in 1610. 1699.https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/jamestown -
House of Burgesses https://www.britannica.com/topic/House-of-Burgesses
House of Burgesses, representative assembly in colonial Virginia, which was an outgrowth of the first elective governing body in a British overseas possession, the General Assembly of Virginia. The General Assembly was established at Jamestown on July 30, 1619. It included the governor himself and a council—all appointed by the colonial proprietor (the Virginia Company)—along with two elected burgesses (delegates) from each of the colony’s 11 settlements. The assembly met in Jamestown until 1700 -
Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact https://www.plimoth.org/learn/just-kids/homework-help/mayflower-and-mayflower-compact
Mayflower set sail from England in July 1620, but it had to turn back twice because the ship it was traveling with, leaked. After deciding to leave the Speedwell behind, Mayflower finally got underway on September 6, 1620. Many ships in the 1600s were damaged or shipwrecked by storms. The 1620 agreement (Mayflower Compact) was a legal instrument that bound the Pilgrims together when they arrived in New England. The core members of the Pilgrims' immigrant group were Separatists. -
Great Migration https://historyofmassachusetts.org/
In September of 1620, the separatists traveled to the New World on a ship called the Mayflower and landed off the coast of Massachusetts in November, where they established Plymouth Colony, the first colony in New England. This event marks the beginning of the Great Puritan Migration. The Puritans left England due to religious persecution and for economic reasons as well. The religious climate was threatening, especially towards religious nonconformists like puritans. -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
One of the original English settlements in present-day Massachusetts, settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England under Gov. John Winthrop and Deputy Gov. Thomas Dudley. In 1629 the Massachusetts Bay Company had obtained from King Charles I a charter empowering the company to trade and colonize in New England between the Charles and Merrimack rivers. https://www.britannica.com/place/Massachusetts-Bay-Colony -
Maryland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Maryland
The history of Maryland dates back to the beginning of European exploration, starting with John Cabot, who explored the coast of North America for the Kingdom of England in 1498. After European settlements had been made to the south and north, the colonial Province of Maryland was granted by King Charles I to Sir George Calvert, his former Secretary of State in 1632, for settlement beginning in March 1634. It was notable for having been established with religious freedom for Roman Catholics. -
Rhode Island https://www.thoughtco.com/rhode-island-colony-103880
Although the Puritan British theologian Roger Williams is often given the sole role of founder of Rhode Island, the colony was in fact settled by five independent and combative sets of people between 1636 and 1642. They were all English, and most of them began their colonial experiences in Massachusetts Bay colony but were banished for various reasons. Roger Williams' group was the earliest. In 1636. -
Maryland Toleration Act https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/868/maryland-toleration-act-of-1649
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. The law made it a crime to blaspheme God, the Holy Trinity, the Virgin Mary, or the early apostles and evangelists. -
Salutary Neglect https://kids.britannica.com/
Salutary neglect was an unwritten, unofficial policy of the British government in practice from about the late 1600s to the mid-1700s that allowed its North American colonies to be left largely on their own with little British interference. As long as the colonies remained loyal to the British government and contributed to Britain’s economic success, trade regulations for the colonies were barely enforced and imperial supervision of internal colonial affairs was loose. This led to American Ind. -
Connecticut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Colony
The Connecticut Colony or Colony of Connecticut, originally known as the Connecticut River Colony or simply the River Colony, was an English colony in New England which became the state of Connecticut. It was organized on March 3, 1636 as a settlement for a Puritan congregation, and the English permanently gained control of the region in 1637 after struggles with the Dutch. The colony was later the scene of a bloody war between the colonists and Pequot Indians known as the Pequot War. -
New York https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/new-york
The Dutch first settled along the Hudson River in 1624; two years later they established the colony of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island. In 1664, the English took control of the area and renamed it New York. One of the original 13 colonies, New York played a crucial political and strategic role during the American Revolution. -
Bacon's rebellion https://www.history.com/news/bacons-rebellion-jamestown-colonial-america
Jamestown was a smoldering ruin, and Nathaniel Bacon was on the run. He had spent the last several months leading a growing group of rebels in a bloody battle against William Berkeley, the colonial governor, and he wasn’t about to stop. Forces would be coming soon from England in an attempt to take his militia down. But Bacon and his men couldn’t surrender. He told them to hide in the woods for the time being, but keep up the fight when they arrive. Soon Bacon died and his militia defeated. -
Pennsylvania
One of the original 13 colonies, Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn as a haven for his fellow Quakers. Pennsylvania’s capital, Philadelphia, was the site of the first and second Continental Congresses in 1774 and 1775, the latter of which produced the Declaration of Independence, sparking the American Revolution. After the war, Pennsylvania became the second state, after Delaware, to ratify the U.S. Constitution. https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/pennsylvania -
Salem witch trials https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/salem-witch-trials
The Salem witch trials began during 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. As a wave of hysteria spread throughout colony, a special court convened in Salem to hear the cases; the first convicted witch, Bridget Bishop, was hanged. Eighteen others followed Bishop to Salem’s Gallows Hill, while some 150 more men, women and children were accused over the next several months. -
Great Awakening/Enlightenment http://mrstolentinohistory.weebly.com/great-awakening--enlightenment.html
In the 1730s and 1740s, a religious revival called the First Great Awakening swept through the colonies. In New England and the Middle Colonies, ministers called for "a new birth," a return to the strong faith of earlier days. One such minister was Jonathan Edwards, who gave powerful sermons. The Great Awakening inspired greater religious freedom. The formation of many new churches placed an emphasis on having personal faith. Colonists began choosing their own faiths. -
Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. On July 10, 1754, 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. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/albany-plan -
French-Indian War https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/french-and-indian-war
Also known as the Seven Year 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. At the 1763 peace conference, the British received the territories of Canada from France and Florida from Spain, opening the Mississippi Valley to westward expansion. -
Proclamation of 1763 https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of#:~:text=In%20response%20to%20Pontiac's%20Rebellion,colonial%20expansion%20westward%20beyond%20Appalachia.
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by the British at the end of the French and Indian War to appease Native Americans by checking the encroachment of European settlers on their lands. It created a boundary, known as the proclamation line, separating the British colonies on the Atlantic coast from American Indian lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada.
