Colonial America timeline.

Roanoke, located in Virginia, was the 1st British settlement led by John white. He returned to England to get more supplies and around 3 years later returned to find the settlement deserted and the people gone. The only clues were the letters CRO carved into the trees and CROATOAN onto the palisades. He believed this meant the were living w/ the Croatoan Indians, but he never found out due to the harsh weather and no funds. He returned to England having lost his family and settlers
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The 1st permanent British settlement along the coast of Virginia established by Virginia company of London & led by John Smith. Only 38 out of 150 survived the 1st winter, due to being on a swamp, refusal to work, NA's, & harsh winter. Smith declared that if you didn't work, you didn't eat. Many died, always trying to get new people. In 1612, John Rolfe and Pocahontas developed 1st profitable export; tobacco. Indentured servants 1st used to work in the fields
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The House of Burgesses was the 1st legislative assembly in the Americas that was established at Jamestown. The members would meet once a year with their royal governor to determine local taxes and decide on local laws. Only property owners could elect reps. to the house. In 1624 the Virginia Company's charter was in a lot of debt and was revoked. Virginia then became a royal colony under King James I.
source- https://www.ushistory.org/us/2f.asp and note packet

The Pilgrims settled the Plymouth Colony. About 100 people set sail on the Mayflower arriving at Cape Cod, Mass. They settled at an abandoned Wampanoag settlement on a hill. The Mayflower Compact established the foundation for the the 1st gov. plan in the colonies. They met Squanto; a Wampanoag NA. They would have died without him, he taught the settlers how to grow corn & established a treaty w/ Massasoit(Wamp. leader). In the fall of 1621, they celebrated their 1st Thanksgiving!
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The Separatist Puritans wanted to move away from England to the new world because separating from the church was considering treasonous. And they wanted to worship freely and escape potentially getting punished. In 1620 they sailed on the Mayflower, intending to go to Virginia along the Hudson River, but instead went to Massachusetts, and established the Plymouth Colony. This is the beginning of the Great Puritan Migration.
https://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-great-puritan-migration/

A middle colony settled by the Dutch. They called it New Netherlands(NN) and NYC New Amsterdam. The Dutch promoted settlement & gave landholders land to rent out to tenant farmers. the Dutch and British fought 3 naval wars, & in 1664 the British sent a naval fleet to seize NN & Dutch surrendered w/out a fight. The people were able to keep their land, and the territory was renamed for the Duke of York who received a charter for the territory.
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Where the Puritans settled, using a charter from King Charles and governed by John Winthrop. This colony was based on Puritan laws and rules, and dissenters (people who didn't follow Puritans laws) were punished. Some went to form New England colonies. By 1643, many English settlers joined and outnumbered the Puritans, but they remained in control. This was the largest and most influential New England colony. But in 1691 Massachusetts became a royal colony.
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A southern colony, settled by Lord Baltimore. He was granted 100 mil acres for persecuted Catholics to settle. Maryland was a proprietary colony, so Baltimore was ruler, but he died so his son Cecil Calvert took over. To every married couple who would settle in Maryland, Cecil offered 100 acres. Protestants took this offer and the Catholic haven become dominantly Protestant. Religious freedom granted in 1649(Toleration Act of 1649).
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A New England colony, settled by Thomas Hooker. Citizenship here was based on land and ownership, rather than religion. In 1639 the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut were made. This stated the powers and limits of government. This was the 1st written constitution in North America and was inspired by Thomas Hookers sermon on May 31,1662.

source =note packet and https://connecticuthistory.org/the-fundamental-orders-of-connecticut/

Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for speaking out against gov. authorities for taking the NA's land & punishing people who didn't follow Puritan laws. So he founded Rhode Island, a New England colony, with his supporters. There was no religious persecution. This plants a seed for diversity & religious freedom that you see in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
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This law was passed in 1649 to ensure religious freedom for people in the colony. This was the first official law in America to have religious freedom. However, Maryland nullified this law from 1654 to 1661, then skips a few years to 1692 through the revolutionary war.
https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/868/maryland-toleration-act-of-1649

A southern colony, settled by 8 supporters of King Charles II, who gave them land to settle here. People settled here to grow cash crops, mainly rice, indigo, and tobacco because of the easy access to trade in the West Indies. Cash crops are made to sell, not for just the farmer & required a lot of labor, making the Carolinas hugely involved with slavery. By 1720 the slaves outnumbered the Europeans 2:1. Carolina became a royal colony in 1729, splitting into North and South Carolina
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Nathaniel Bacon raised an unauthorized milia of slave, indentured servants and poor farmers to retaliate against the NA's attacks on the Virginia frontier, because gov. Berkeley wouldn't. In response Berkeley fought back against Bacons army and the rebellion ended shortly after Bacons death and his co-conspirators were hung. This was the 1st colonial rebellion against royal control. Because of this white farmers got more rights & laws making hereditary slaves were made.
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A middle colony settled by William Penn. He established the colony as a "Holy Experiment", where every male settler was given 50 acres and the right to vote. In the 1600s Penn became a Quaker, making his colony a haven for Quakers. The Society of Friends(Quakers) was established in 1647 and formally organized in 1668. Quakers did not believe in war, and were often ridiculed for this, along with their simple cloths and speech and for rejecting oaths and rituals.
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1690s-1760s. British policy that let colonists break the laws associated w/ trade. There wasn't enough enforcement & it was to expensive to send British troops to America. The colonists profited a lot from this and didn't want it taken away, so when the British reversed the policy to raise taxes to pay for the war debt they got during the French and Indian War, it made the colonies mad, resulting in, eventually, independence from Britain(Boston tea party, American rev, etc)
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Started w/ a group of young girls in Salem, Massachusetts. They were caught dancing & more, things spiraled & they claimed to be possessed by the devil. They accused some women of witchcraft, & with that mass hysteria swept through the town. If you were tried & found guilty you would be hung, unless you confessed. Basically you had to confess no matter what, or you were killed. 150 imprisoned, 27 total died(19 hung). The hysteria ended in Sept. when the public turned against the trials.
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Jonathan Edwards wrote sermons that appeals to people’s fears to make them scared of hell. Jonathan Edwards was a puritan theologian, preaching in Massachusetts. And between the years of 1730 and 1750, he preached his sermons in hopes to scare people into believing. He had mass conversions and what became known as the Great Awakening in the American colonies.
source-my English book I brought home and https://www.ushistory.org/us/7b.asp

A conference June 19–July 11, 1754 at Albany, New York, that wanted to unify colonies for defense against the French. The colonies; Connecticut, Maryland, Mass., NH, NY, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island—sent delegates to the conference. The British Board of Trade tried to work out plans for joint defense & to help get NA's on their side. They were still choosing between the French and the British before the French and Indian War.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Albany-Congress

War between French and British and a part of the Seven Years War. Conflict started when the American colonies expanded to the west & when the French moved into Ohio and built a fort, causing the first battle of the war on May 28, 1754. The war ended on February 10, 1763 with the signing of the Treaty of Paris. France gave up all of its North American territory and Britain gained all of the land east of the Mississippi River.
https://history.state.gov/milestones/1750-1775/french-indian-war

Was made by the British at the end of the French and Indian War for the Native Americans, and gave them their own land. It created a boundary, known as the proclamation line, declaring that the land west of the Appalachian mountains is off-limits the settlers. No people could go there, only licensed traders could travel there. It was issued on October 7, 1763.
https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of

salutary neglect- https://www.landofthebrave.info/salutary-neglect.htm