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Roanoke
Roanoke was a colony started by John White. When White went home to Spain to get more supplies, he was delayed by the war and had to stay in Spain longer than expected. Upon his return, he found that his colony was deserted and he found carvings that spelled out "CROATOAN." This lead him to think that they traveled with the Croatoan Indians. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/roanoke-colony-deserted -
Jamestown
Jamestown was established by the Virginia Company of London along the coast of Virginia. The colony had a rough star- only 38 out of 150 settlers survived the first winter. The settlement was on a swamp, the gentlemen refused to work, the winter was really bad, and native Americans were not friendly. John Smith emerged as the Jamestown leader.
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House of Burgesses
The assembly was one division of the legislature established by Gov. George Yeardley at Jamestown; the other included the governor himself and a council, all appointed by the colonial proprietor (the Virginia Company). https://www.britannica.com/topic/House-of-Burgesses -
Great Migration
English migration to Massachusetts consisted of a few hundred pilgrims who traveled 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. http://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-great-puritan-migration/ -
Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
The pilgrims sailed on the Mayflower to Virginia. They settled in the Plymouth Colony.The Mayflower Compact established the foundation for the colony's government. The pilgrims settled by the Wampanoag Indians and they met Squanto,they helped each other out and they could communicate and meditate.
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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.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
About 100 puritans settled here with a charter from King Charles I. They were led by Governor John Winthrop. There was no separation between church and government. Punishments included fines, public humiliation, execution, ans banishment. It became the largest and most influential Colony.
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The Great Awakening/ Enlightenment
Jonathan Edwards, the Yale minister who refused to convert to the Church of England, became concerned that New England citizens were becoming far too concerned with worldly matters. Some were beginning to suggest that good works might save a soul. This sparked what became known as the Great Awakening in the American colonies. This event was a reaction against the Enlightenment, it was also a long term cause of the Revolution.
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Maryland
Maryland is a Southern Colony and Settled by Lord Baltimore. Baltimore was a Catholic who convince King Charles I to grant him 100 million acres for persecuted Catholics to settle. Maryland was a proprietary colony. Baltimore died before he could do anything with the land so his son, Cecil Calvert, took over. He offered 100 acres to every married couple, and a lot of Protestants took advantage.
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island is a New England colony, settled by Roger Williams and his supporters. Roger established the colony of Rhode Island so that people can be free from religious persecution of Christians. It was the first colony to guarantee all its citizens' freedom of worship and was founded on separation of church and state.
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Connecticut
The Connecticut Colony was founded in 1636 by a colonist named Thomas Hooker. The first European settlement in the Connecticut Colony occurred in Windsor, and then in the Hartford and Wethersfield areas in 1633. The settlers were Dutch, having arrived from New Netherlands (present day New York). These settlements combined to form the Connecticut Colony in 1633, founded by Thomas Hooker.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was settled in 1643 and was one of the 13 original colonies in America. King Charles II granted William Penn a charter for the colony. It was only supposed to be a "Holy experiment", a place without a land owning aristocracy where every male settler received 50 acres and the right to vote. Penn became a Quaker and his colony became the safe haven for all Quakers.
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Maryland Toleration Act
The Toleration Act was a written document that granted all Catholics, who lived in Maryland, religious freedom. It was the second law requiring religious tolerance in the British North American colonies.
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Carolina
A southern colony and settled by the 8 supporters of King Charles II. People settled in the Carolinas to grow cash crops like rice, indigo, and tobacco. These crop require a huge labor force so Europeans used slaves to help tend to the crops.
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Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion against the native Americans, who were raiding the frontier, in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
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Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials occurred in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft—the Devil’s magic—and 20 were executed. Eventually, the colony admitted the trials were a mistake and compensated the families of those convicted.
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French-Indian War
The French and Indian War began in 1754 and ended with the Treaty of Paris in 1763. The war, despite the name of it, was fought by the French and the British. Both sides had American Indian allies.The British General was named Braddock.
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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.
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Salutary Neglect
The policy was an intentional lack of enforcement by the British government of British trade laws in the American colonies. There were no effective enforcement agencies and it was expensive to send British troops to America. The British policy of Salutary Neglect was not documented.
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Proclamation of 1763
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued in response to a revolt of Native Americans on October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America. This royal proclamation closed colonial expansion westward and was the first measure to affect all thirteen colonies. This was intended to protect colonists from Native American and vice versa.
https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of
