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Roanoke
Roanoke was founded by John White in 1587. This settlement will eventually be apart of North Carolina. White went back to England to get more supplies. When he came back, the settlement was deserted. He thought that his people were living with the natives, but he never was able to find out because of stormy weather and low funds.
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Jamestown
The Virgina Company of London established a colony along the coast of Virgina.The colony got off to a rough start and only 38 of the 150 were still alive after the first winter. This happened because the colony was on a swamp, the men refused to work, the winter was extremely harsh, and the Native Americans were not friendly to the settlers. John Smith soon became their leader and he said that those who didn't work didn't eat.They learned that they could grow tobacco, which was very profitable. -
House of Burgesses
It was the first legislature made up of elected representatives, established at Jamestown. It was made to enact legislation to the colony. It was formed by the Virgina Company. Only property owners could vote to elect representatives to the House of Burgesses. https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1151.html -
Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
About 100 passengers including 35 Pilgrims set sail on the Mayflower. They were looking for a an area near the Hudson River. The Mayflower set anchor at Cape Cod 65 days later. They decided to just stay there and settle. They found an abandoned Wampanoag community on a hill and settled there. They established the Mayflower Compact which set the foundation for the colony's government. They met Squanto and he showed them grow food and establish a treaty with the Wampanoag leader.
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New York
New York was settled by the Dutch in 1624. It was originally called New Netherlands and New York City was called Amsterdam. They used the "Patroon" system to promote settlement. The British and the Dutch fought three naval wars. In 1664, the British sent a naval fleet and the Dutch surrendered without a fight. The territory was then renamed after the Duke of York, and remained under British control.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
With a charter from King Charles I, the Puritans settled in Massachusetts. They were led by John Winthrop. In this colony they followed Puritan laws. The laws said that they were tied to the beliefs of the Puritan church. The people were not allowed to speak out against the Puritan religion. If people didn't follow the laws, they would be executed or banished.
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Maryland
Lord Baltimore founded Maryland for persecuted Catholics to settle. He convinced King Charles I to give him 100 acres to settle there. Maryland started as a Proprietary Colony, which meant that the owner of the colony was the ruler, not the king or queen. His son took over as ruler and gave every married couple 100 acres of land. Protestants took advantage of this, so Maryland became mostly Protestant.
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island was settled by Roger Williams and his supporters. He was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony because he was speaking out against the government for punishing religious practices. Because of this, he founded Rhode Island where there was no religious persecution.
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Connecticut
Connecticut was founded in 1636 by Thomas Hooker and other colonists. They Established the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, which was the first written constitution in North America. It stated that citizenship was based on land ownership not religion.
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The Great Migration
It was a period when English puritans migrated to New England. They left England due to religious persecution. There was two groups of Puritans, the separatists and the non-separatists. The separatists moved to Holland for 12 years and then moved to the New World. They traveled to the New World on the Mayflower and landed off the coast of Massachusetts. https://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-great-puritan-migration/ -
Maryland Toleration Act
The Toleration Act of 1649 gave religious freedom to all Christians living in Maryland. It gave religious freedom to all of those who believed in the Trinity and Jesus Christ. It was also made to solve religious conflicts. It made it a crime to call someone a "heretic" or a "Puritan".
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Carolina
Carolina was settled by supporters of King Charles I. He granted his supporters the land. With easy access to the trade in the West Indies, people started to settle there to grow cash crops. Cash crops required a huge labor force, by 1720 African slaves outnumbered settlers 2:1. In 1729, it became a royal colony and split into North and south Carolina. -
Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon raised an unauthorized militia of indentured servants to retaliate against a series of Native American attacks on the Virgina frontier. In response, Governor William Berkley gathered an army to fight against Bacon. Bacon and his men attacked and destroyed Jamestown.
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Pennsylvania
William 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 1660, Penn became a Quaker and his colony became a haven for Quakers.
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Salem Witch Trials
The Salem witch trials started when young girls in the village claimed to be possessed by the devil, and accused some of the other woman of witchcraft. Most of the towns people were found guilty or didn't testify, so they were imprisoned or the were killed. Many people believe that the reason people believed it was witchcraft was because they were eating bad bread. They thought the bread had a chemical in it that made the people have effects that parallel LSD.
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Great Awakening/Enlightenment
The Great Awakening was a movement to fulfill people's religious purpose, which was missing at the time. People united in the understanding of the Christian faith and life. It also led to creation of different sects and denominations, and advocated religious tolerance. In Europe, the Enlightenment was responsible for inspiring revived interests in education, science and literature. The advocates of this movement stressed the power of humans to reason so as to promote progress.
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French-Indian War
The French-Indian War was fought between France and Great Britain It determined control of the territory of North America. The war started because of land debates. They were debating about the Ohio River valley and if it was apart of British of French territory. The also fought about who dominated North America, the settlers or the French and Native Americans. https://www.britannica.com/event/French-and-Indian-War -
Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. 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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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by the British at the end of the French and Indian War to appease Native Americans by checking the overrunning of European settlers on their lands. It created the proclamation line, separating the British colonies on the Atlantic coast from American Indian lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. -
Salutary Neglect
Salutary Neglect was a policy of British government that said the trade regulations for the colonies were not enforced as long as the colonies remained loyal to the British government and contributed to the economic profitability of Britain. This “salutary neglect” contributed involuntarily to the increasing autonomy of colonial legal and legislative institutions, which ultimately led to American independence.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/salutary-neglect
