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Roanoke
Sir Richard Grenville sent seven ships full of colonists and established Roanoke. There were many food shortages, and later found with no inhabitants and everything destroyed. Now it is also called the Lost Colony.
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Jamestown
This colony owed its survival to Native America. It was the first successful permanent European. It was later burned by Bacon's rebels due to Bacon's rebellion.
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Salutary Neglect
It was Britain's unofficial policy to relax the enforcement of the strict regulations under trade laws. This helped American colonies to flourish by trading with non-British entities.
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House of Burgesses
Virginia's assembly that quieted opposition by cutting taxes and opening Indian lands to colonists.
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Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
The Pilgrim leaders drew up this agreement. This Compact helped maintain order in the new settlements. It established a self-governing colony based off of the majority rule of the male church members.
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Great Migration
60,000 people left England to go to America to escape religious persecution and economic ruin.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
During the Great Migration, the Massachusets Bay Company found the Bay colony. It was a British settlement in Massachusetts. It was settled by Governor John Winthrop and his group of Puritans.
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Maryland
Charles I declared Cecilius Calvert the owner of millions of acres on the upper Chesapeake Bay, which was called Maryland. It was called Maryland after Charles's French wife.
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Connecticut
Thomas Hooker and his congregation left Massachusetts and went southwest to get more farmland, and established Connecticut.
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Rhode Island
Roger Williams believed in the separation of the state and church, and challenged the king's right to give Native American land to English colonists. This made the Puritan leaders angry, so they banished Roger. He then bought land from the Narragansets and founded Rhode Island.
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Maryland Toleration Act
Science there weren't enough Catholic immigrants to create a haven for fellow Roman Catholics who faced persecution, he opened his colony to Protestants. Later, the Protestants outnumbered Roman Catholics. In order to protect the minority's legal rights, the Maryland Assembly passed the Toleration Act.
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Carolina
Charles II gave eight supporters a charter for a colony between Virginia and Spanish Florida . In honor of Charles II, they names the colony Carolina, later divided into North and South Carolina. By 1720, slaves made up about 70% of South Carolina.
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New York
New York was originally called New Amsterdam in the Manhattan Islands by the Dutch West India Company that was attracted by the profitable fur trade.
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Bacon's Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon wanted war with the Native Americans in Chesapeake to get their land. His followers looted wealthy plantations and the rebels burned Jamestown. Afterward, Bacon died from the illness that plagued the Chesapeake.
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Pennsylvania
Charles II repaid Admiral Sir William Penn by making his son proprietor of a large tract of land around New York. His holdings later increased the next year when Duke of New York gave him Delaware. Pen named his colony Pennsylvania a made it a haven for his Quakers.
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Great Awakening/Enlightenment
The Glorious Revolution established that royal power flowed from the Parliament, not from the will of God. The idea that God didn't directly intervene in human affairs wasn't confined to politics. This produced a new revolution in ideas called the Enlightenment.
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Salem Witch Trials
In Massechusets, a group of girls claimed they were possessed by the devils and accused many women of witchcraft. Later, a court convened in Salem heard the cases. Nineteen people died, and 150 men and women were accused of witch craft.
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Albany Plan
At the Albany Congress, Benjamin Franklin adopted the Albany Plan, which called for a loose confederation to promote defense. However, the colonial assemblies rejected the plan fearing it would raise taxes and gave Great Britain too much power.
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French-Indian War
The war was a conflict between France and Great Britain. It gave Britain big tutorial gains in North America. However, paying war expenses led to the American Revolution. It ended with the Treaty of Paris.
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Proclamation of 1763
The British claimed Canada and all French holdings east of the Mississippi River excluding New Orleans. Spain surrendered Florida to the British, but received France's Louisiana territory west of the Mississippi.
