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Roanoke
What: First permanent English colony in North America
Who: Sir Walter Raleigh
Why: Settlers inexplicably disappeared
Where: Virginia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony -
Jamestown
What: First permanent English settlement
Where: Virginia
Who: London Company
Why: To permanently live in New England Important events: Starving Time, left 60 of 214 settlers alive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown,_Virginia -
Puritan Migration
What: Puritan Migration to New England
Who: King James I and Charles I, Puritans
Why: Religious climate being unpromising
Where: New England, England https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan_migration_to_New_England_(1620%E2%80%931640) -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
What: An English colony around Massachusetts
Where: Massachusetts. Where do you think it is?
Who: Massachusetts Bay Company
Why: Company's second attempt at a colony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony -
House of Burgesses
What: A group of people that created laws
Who: Virginia Company
Why: To pass laws in early Colonial America
Where: Virginia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Burgesses -
Bacon's Rebellion
What: Armed rebellion against Governor William Berkeley
Where: Virginia
Who: Virginia Settlers, Nathaniel Bacon
Why: Berkeley refused Bacon's request to drive Native Americans -
Salem Witch Trials
What: A sequence of people accused of witchcraft
Where: Colonial Massachusetts
Who: People found guilty of witchcraft
Why: Witchcraft was illegal there https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials -
Albany Plan
What: A plan to create a unified government for the thirteen colonies
Where: Albany, New York
Who: Benjamin Franklin
Why: Increased instances of disagreeing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany_Plan -
French-Indian War
What: A theater of the Seven Years' War
Where: North America
Who: British America, New France, Iroquois
Why: Great Britain declared war on France