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Roanoke
115 settles lead by sir Walter Raleigh sailed and settled at Roanoke an island off the coast of the Carolinas. They sailed there for the plan of having a north America settlement, for shipping and for mining for gold and sliver. John white decide to sail back to England to get fresh supports. He later came back and found that everyone was died and no trace of them 3 long years later.
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salutary Neglect
salutary neglect was Britain unofficial policy Robert Walpole to relax the enforcement of strict. Walpole wanted England to ease the grip on the colonies. wise and salutary neglect a the prime factor in the booming commercial success of the country North American holdings. the mean thing was that they wanted to operate independently of Britain.
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Jamestown
in 1607 the Virginia compony of London established a colony along the coast of Virginia. they started off rough only 38 of the 150 settlers survived the first winter. The gentleman refused to work , the winter was really bad and the natives were really not friendly. john smith was there leader and said that whose who didn't work didn't eat. they tired to leave but then more people came with supply and the turned around and stayed. What saved them was a cash crop tobacco.
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House of Burgesses
representative assembly in colonial Virginia. The General Assembly was established by Governor George Yeardley at Jamestown on 1619. It included the governor himself and a council along with two elected burgesses from each of the colony’s 11 settlements when meetings were moved to Williamsburg, the newly established capital of colonial Virginia.
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Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower compacat
The Plymouth colony was started by the pilgrims who came over on the mayflower. they all signed the mayflower compacted started was the first written form of government doc in the colony. they were separatists they had religious freedom. john smith named the colony Plymouth after leaving from Jamestown.
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New York
the Dutch were the first to settle here they called is new Netherlands and new York city was new Amsterdam. The duth east india company found and cliam nw netherland as ther territory. The Dutch and British fought a 3 years navel war. in 1664 British surrounded them and without a fight the British won and they named it New York after the king brother, the duke of York.
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Massaschusetts bay colony
it was a British colony that was the most successful and profitable colony in new England. it was founded by the great Puritan migration by the Massachusetts bay company. they were all strongly puritan they wanted to purify the church of England. they were lead by john Winthrop. they were so profitable for there fishing and timber and trading goods.
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Great Migration
a group of English people called the puritan. came from England due to religious persecution also for economic succus. their ship landed in Plymouth and they called it the Plymouth colony. They were the first long lasting colony in new England. another co. called Dorchester Company founded a fishing settlement at Gloucester, which later failed.
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Maryland
found by lord Baltimore for the freedom of a bunch of catholic. he was given 100 million acres for the persecuted catholic is was a proprietary colony was that meant they and leader of the colony ruled them and not England. Baltimore died and his son ceail cauey tool over managing the colony he offered 100 acres the every married coupe who would settle in Maryland. Then the toleration act of 1649 was granted for religious freedom to people who lived in Maryland.
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connecticut
also it was known as the river colony.The name Connecticut was from Indian word meaning river whose water is driven by tides or winds. its was settled by 3 groups of puritan from mass. Connecticut is located in the area to the southwest of Massachusetts. http://softschools.com/facts/13_colonies/connecticut_colony_facts/2034/ -
Rhode Island
founded by roger Williams after he was kicked out of the mass bay colony for not following their beliefs in the church. 1776 Rhode Island became the first colony to renounce allegiance to King George III of England. they also passed a act that let all slaves be free.
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Maryland toleration act
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Carolina
8 members of king chares were sent to the Carolinas and that's how they were founded. They grow rice, indigo and tobacco as a cash crop to make money. by 1720 Africans slaves outnumbered the Europeans settlers in the Carolina 2:1 in 1729 they became and royal colony and was split into north and south Carolina.
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Bacon`s Rebellion
Nathaniel bacon raised an unauthorized mitmita of indentured servants to retaliate against a series of native Americans attacks in the Virginia frontier. It was the first colonial rebellion against royal control. white farmers and landholders were given mire right, but the planter class remained in power. Then their was laws being made that all African hereditary were slaves and it was passed. the rebellion ended when bacon died from dysentery.
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salem witch trials
when young girls in Salem village, Massachusetts claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused some local women of witchcraft a wave of hysteria swept through the area. 150 people were in prisoned foe witchcraft 7 died in prison . 19 men and women were found guilty and hung and 1 person was crushed to death doe refusing . it all ended in 1692 when everyone turn against the trails.
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the great awakening
the great awakening was a religious movement for the colony. Jonathan Edwards was the leader of the people and they were to struck fear into the people about god. Edwards gave an infamous and emotional sermon entitled Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
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Albany plan
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. this was to first plan of government to be place under all the colonies. England wanted the colony to have a meeting in 1754 to negotiation between the colony of new York and the Mohawk nation. -
French Indian War
also known as the seven years war. this was a war that started fighting between the french and British. This made to English start a war in 1756. it was in the Ohio river valley. the French built fort duquesne where the allegheny and monongahela rivers joined the Ohio River. the french ended up winning the war. -
proclamation of 1763
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pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was founded by Williams Penn who was granted a charter from king Charles. He found the colony was a holy experiment. Every man that came to Pennsylvania was given 50 acre of land and the right to vote. in 1660 Penn became a quackery, but was not formally organized until 1668. They believes they rejected oaths rituals and formal ministers of the 17th century church
