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Roanoke
The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was an early settlement established on Roanoke Island off the shore of North Carolina. Intended as a permanent English settlement, the colony was financed and organized by Sir Walter Raleigh under a charter granted by Queen Elizabeth I. -
Jamestown
is known as the first english settlement in north america. Tobacco was one of the first profitable exports."Serious problems soon emerged in the small English outpost, which was located in the midst of a chiefdom of about 14,000 Algonquian-speaking Indians ruled by the powerful leader Powhatan." there were roughly around 104 english men and young boys who settled there first. This all ended up failing due to laziness of the people. https://www.britannica.com/place/Jamestown-Colony -
New York
Giovanni da Verrazano an Italian-born navigator sailing for France, discovered New York Bay in 1524.In 1624 the first permanent Dutch settlement was established at Fort Orange.New Amsterdam, which was established on Manhattan Island, later became New York City. The state is named for the Duke of York and Albany, who later became King James II. -
house of burgesses
the general assembly in virgina.which was an outgrowth of the first elective governing body in a British overseas possession.it included the governor, along with two selercted burgesses from all 11 colonies. -
Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
It was the first self govenment plan in the colonies and it pledged decisions would be made by the will of the majority of the colonys men.The Separatists hoped that in Holland, they would be free to worship as they liked. the Separatists returned to London to get organized. A prominent merchant agreed to advance the money for their journey. The Virginia Company gave them permission thttps://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/mayflower -
great migration
puritains migrated from the Chesapeake and the West Indies.1,000 passengers migrated from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in eleven ships. the purtians believed that the Church of England was beyond reform. -
Massachusetts bay Colony
1630 the puritins settled by the massachusetts bay. they were led by John Withdrop. the puritan law that governed the colony were tied to the Puritan church.by 1643 20,000 english settlers joined the Puritans, they were out numbered but still kept control because only males could vote in the church. -
Connecticut
dutch established it. first trading post was the Connecticut river vallety.
he founder of Connecticut was Thomas Hooker, an English yeoman and clergyman born in 1586
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Maryland Toleration Act
Many dissenters from the Church of England sought freedom to worship by emigrating to America. George Calvert was an Englishman who looked to America as a place of religious freedom. For years his family had to practice its Roman Catholic faith in secret while openly participating in the Church of England. he Toleration Act, passed on April 24, 1649, granted religious freedom to all who believed in the Trinity and that Jesus was the son of God.https://www.christianity.com/church/ -
Bacon's rebellion
the significance was pushed the more elite form of virgina to a harsher form of slavery. this all began by a local dispute with the Doeg Indians on the Potomac River. The uprising developed because of high taxes, low prices for tobacco, and anger towards Sir Berkeley. -
Pennsylvania
1681 King Charles granted William Penn a charter for a colony of Pennsylvania Penn establishedmthe Colony as a Holy expiremnent. a place without landowning aristocracy where every male settler recieved acres and the right to vote.
Penn became a quaker and his colony soon became a Haven
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Salem witch trials
the main cause of the salem witch trials after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft.special court convened in Salem to hear the cases; the first convicted witch, Bridget Bishop, was hanged that June.More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft. there were 20 executed. -
Salutary Neglect
In the mid-17th century—in pursuit of a favourable balance of trade and of continuing to exploit raw materials from colonies that also served as a market for English manufactured goods—the English government adopted the so-called Navigation Acts. Under the Navigation Act of 1651, all goods exported to England or its colonies had to be transported on English vessels or on ships from the country from which the goods originated. https://www.britannica.com/topic/salutary-neglect -
Carolina
southern colony settled by supporters ofr King Charles II in 1663
with easy acess to trade in the west indies people settled in Carolinas to grow cash crops. By 1720 african slaves outnumbered euorpean settles in the carolinas 1729 carolina became a royal colony and was split in north and south. -
Great Awakening/Elightenment
The Great Awakening was a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s, this camer at a time of idea of secular rationalism was being emphasized, and passion for religion had grown stale.middle colonies were made up of quakers the southern colonies were mostly members of the Anglican Church, but there were also many Baptists, Presbyterians and Quakers.Jonathan Edwards was one of the chief /fathers of the great awakening. ://www.history.com -
French -Indian War
The war provided Great Britain enormous territorial gains in North America, but disputes over subsequent frontier policy and paying the war’s expenses led to colonial discontent, and ultimately to the American Revolution. In 1753, prior to the outbreak of hostilities, Great Britain controlled the 13 colonies up to the Appalachian Mountains
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Albany plan
significance of the albany plan was on july 10 th seven representives British North American apoted a plan.this plan ended up failing because the colonies were afraid of losing their own autonomy or self government. Albany congress was created becausewere twofold; to try to secure the support and cooperation of the Iroquois in fighting the French, and to form a colonial alliance based on a design by Benjamin Franklin. -
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. It created a boundary, known as the proclamation line, separating the British colonies on the Atlantic coast from American Indian lands west of the Appalachian Mountains. royal proclamation, issued on October 7, 1763, closed down colonial expansion westward beyond Appalachia.https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of -
Rhode Island
Roger williams was banished from teh Massachusetts Bay Colony for spreading out against the government government authorites punishing religious dissention. When founded there was no religious persecution at Christians( note packet) -
Maryland
Lord Baltimore was a cathoolic who convinced King Charles I to grant him 100 million acres for perscuted catholics to settle. It was settled as a Propietary Colony. Baltimore died before he was able to do anything with the land The toleration act of 1649 granted religious freedoms to all christans living in Maryland
