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Roanoke
Sir Walter Raleigh founded the Roanoke Island Colony in August 1585. Due to Indian attacks and limited food supplies, they left Roanoke. In 1587, 100 men, women, and children settled on Roanoke Island under the leadership of John White. The settlement will eventually become part of North Carolina. White traveled to England and returned to Roanoke 3 years later. When he returned, the settlement was deserted.
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Jamestown
In 1607, 104 men and boys arrived to start a settlement in North America. They settled at Jamestown, Virginia on May 13. James town was named after King Charles I. This town had a very rough start due to bad weather, laziness, and bad relations with the Native Americans. John Smith emerged as Jamestown's leader.\
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House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was an outgrowth of the first elective governing body in the General Assembly of Virginia. The General House of Assembly was established by Governor George Yeardly at Jamestown on July 30, 1619. It included the governor, the council, and two elected delegates from each of the colony's 11 settlements. The House of Burgesses granted supplies and originated laws.
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Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower was a cargo ship that transported the Pilgrims to Massachusetts during the Great Puritan Migration. Before the Mayflower, the pilgrims established the Plymouth Colony. It set sail in September 1620. The captain of the Mayflower was Christopher Jones. The Mayflower sighted shore on November 9. The Mayflower Compact were self-government rules created by the English settlers who traveled on the Mayflower.
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Great Migration
The Great Migration consisted of a few hundred pilgrims who went to Plymouth Colony in the 1620s. The Puritans left for persecution and economic reasons.The puritans were religious dissidents who felt the Church of England was too closely tied with the Catholic religion. In September of 1620, the separatists traveled to the New World on a rented cargo ship. The timeframe of the Great Migration was from 1620-1640.
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New York
New York, which was a Dutch colony called New Amsterdam, was originally founded by Peter MInuit in 1626 on Manhatten Island. In 1664, it was renamed to New York after the Duke of York because the Dutch surrendered to the English.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
In 1630, the Puritan from England settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony under the leadership of Governor John Winthrop. With a charter from King Charles I, about 1000 Puritans settled in Massachusetts. The company wanted to transfer wealth to stockholders, but ended up transferring the charter to Massachusetts.
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Maryland
In 1632, King Charles I made a deal with George Calvert for land east of the Potomac River. The territory was named Maryland in honor of Henrietta Maria. Before the property started, George Calvert died which gave Cecilius, his son, the land in 1634. Cecilius' persuits was to establish it as a haven for Roman Catholics persecuted in England. In March 1684, a group of Catholics and Protestants arrived at St, Clement's Island. -
Rhode Island
In 1636, Roger Williams was exiled from Massachusetts Bay Colony because the Puritans disagreed with his religious views. He found a new settlement and named it "Providence." Williams was followed by other religious exiles. Rhode Island was at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution
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Connecticut
In 1636, the Dutch started the beginning of Connecticut but establishing a trade post on the Connecticut River Valley. This created a general movement out of the Massachusetts colony. The population around in and around Boston grew so quickly that people started to migrate around Connecticut. Thomas Hooker founded Connecticut in 1636.
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Maryland Toleration Act
The Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 was known as “An Act Concerning Religion.” This was created to ensure freedom of religion to all Christian settlers living in Maryland.It also made t a law to blaspheme God. It was passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony.
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Carolina
The economic success in Virginia convinced the English Aristocrats to use their money towards forming a new colony. This colony was founded in 1663 and was called "Carolina." A group of proprietors founded the settlement of Charlestown.The growth of the Carolina colony was slow. The parts of the colony eventually grew apart. Finally, in 1712, they separated and became North and South Carolina.
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Bacon's Rebellion
Nathan Bacon raised an unauthorized militia of indentured servants, slaves and poor farmers to retaliate against a series of Native American attacks on the Virginia frontier. In response, VIrginia Governor William Berkeley gathered an army to fight against Bacon and his men. Some scholars believed hat Bacon had personal vendetta against Berkeley. Bacon and his men attacked and destroyed Jamestown. The rebellion ended soon after Bacon's death from dysentery.
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Pennsylvania
In 1681, King Charles II granted William Penn a charter for the colony of Pennsylvania. Penn established the colony as a "Holy Experiment," a place without a landowning aristocracy where every male settler received 50 acres and the right to vote. In the 1660s, William Penn became a Quaker and his colony soon became a haven for Quakers. The colony was settled by William Penn in 1682.
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Salem Witch Trials
During the spring of 1682, a young group of girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts claimed to be possessed by the devil. Following this, they accused several women of witchcraft towards them. The frenzy of witchcraft became widely spread across the state, getting the court involved. Bridget Bishop was the first accused witch to be hung in June.
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Salutary Neglect
Prime minister Robert Walpole started the Salutary Neglect to put less stress on strict regulations, particularly trade laws. It was directed towards the American colonies in the late seventeenth century. Salutary neglect enabled the American colonies to prosper by trading with non-British entities.
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Great Awakening/Enlightenment
In the 1700's the Enlightenment, a European philosophical movement, spread across the Atlantic Ocean to the middle colonies. Enlightenment thinkers focused on scientific and logical viewpoints of the world. John Edwards was the chief father of the Great Awakening. His ideas were focusing on the fact that humans were sinful.
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Albany Plan
During the Albany Congress, Benjamin Franklin suggested the Albany Plan of Union. This planned called for the permanent federation of the colonies to more effectively addressing shared colonial interests.The meeting was held on June 19 and was finalized on July 10. This event is significant because it marked the first attempt to establish inter-colonial relationships.
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French-Indian War
The French and Indian War took place between 1754-1763. This war began because of conflict over control of Ohio River Valley between England and France. Both c sides desperately wanted the land to expand their settlements. They were also struggling over control of the North America continent.
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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 created a boundary separating the British colonies from the American Indian lands. This boundary was called the Proclamation line. The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by the British at the end of the French-Indian War. Its main purpose was the appease the Native Americans checking the encroachment of European settlers on their settlements.
https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of
