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Roanoke
115 English settlers sailed and discovered a land named Roanoke Island. John White sailed back to England to gather more goods and when he returned, his family and the rest of the colony was gone within three years.
-https://www.history.com/news/what-happened-to-the-lost-colony-of-roanoke -
Jamestown
About 100 English setters sailed over to North America on the banks of the James river, they had conflict with the Native Americans and famine and disease struck them within the first 2 years.
-https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/jamestown -
House of Burgesses
The first legislature in the English colonies after the fall of Jamestown. Only male property owners were allowed to vote for elected representatives.
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The Great Puritan Migration
In the 17th century the English Puritans traveled to New England because of the religion persecution and economical reasons. The separatist puritans wanted to escape to the New World. They sailed on a cargo ship called the Mayflower and were the first to establish the Plymouth Colony.
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Mayflower compact
The English settlers that traveled to the New World created a self-governance, which we call the Mayflower Compact. Knowing that a colony with no law could led to chaos, the colonist leader created this compact to ensure a functioning society.
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New York
The Dutch traveled over to the New World and settled along the Hudson river and the English named it New York.
-https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/new-york -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
King Charles l chartered 1000 Puritans to settle in Massachusetts, led by John Winthrop. The Puritans used their laws based off of the beliefs of the Puritan Church which included harsh punishments.
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Maryland
King Charles l granted a charter George Calvert to sail east to the Potomac River, he also named the land Maryland after their Queen Henrietta Maria.
-https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-settlement-of-maryland -
Connecticut
Connecticut is another New England colony built up by the Massachusetts settlers. The difference between Massachusetts and Connecticut is that Connecticut was more based off land ownership not the Puritan law.
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island is another New England colony settled by Roger Williams who was kicked out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony for spreading false religious ideas and later bought this land from Indians and claimed this land that has religious freedom.
-https://sites.google.com/a/kenilworth38.org/rhode-island-colony-website/home/history -
Maryland Toleration Act
Since England strongly enforced religion onto their people, they began on sailing over to the New World. The people that established Maryland created an act concerning religion which they named the Maryland Toleration Act.
-https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/868/maryland-toleration-act-of-1649 -
Carolina
Captain Jean Ribualt and his soldiers anchored in a large brown channel and came ashore. The Europeans explored and came across Native Americans, they also named their discovered land Carolina and built up walls surrounding it.
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Bacon's rebellion
Governor Sir William Berkeley and his antagonist Nathaniel Bacon Jr. This was considered the first American rebellion. All African American heredity was sold into slavery. Also landowners and farmers got more rights but planters still were ranked the highest.
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Pennsylvania
William Penn and the Quakers was granted a royal charter by King Charles II. Philidephia was Pennsylavania's captial. This was considered a "holy experiment" to protect himself and the quakers from persacution.
-https://www.thoughtco.com/key-facts-about-the-pennsylvania-colony-103879 -
Salem witch trials
In the spring of 1692, a group of young girls claimed that they were possessed by the devil and accused many girls of witchcraft. A wave of hystaria spread over Massachusetts, then a court convened in Salam to hear the witches cases.
-https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/salem-witch-trials -
Great Awakening
The Great Awakening was a religious revival of the new American colonies in 1720-1740. This movement showed the greater importance on the individual and their spiritual experience instead of the higher authority of church doctrine.
-https://www.thoughtco.com/great-awakening-of-early-18th-century-104594 -
Albany Plan
In 1754 a delegation of American colonist created the Albany Plan of Union. This plan was going to establish a centralized government to oversee the colonies and create a defensive line.
-https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-albany-plan-of-union-definition-summary.html -
French-Indian War
The French-Indian war or also known as the Seven-year war was a nine-year war between France and Great Britain to determine who would control the colonial territory of North America.
-http://www.historynet.com/french-and-indian-war -
Proclamation of 1763
At the end of the Seven-year war, the British created a proclamation in 1763 to sooth the angry Indians by checking the encroachment of English settlers on their land. The Otawatta Cheif, in response to the revolt, declared that all lands passed the Appalachians were off-limits to the new English settlers.
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Salutary Neglect
The Salutary Neglect was an unofficial British colon enforced on the colonies. This policy was an intentional lack of enforcement by the British government of their trade laws for the American colonies.
-https://www.britannica.com/topic/salutary-neglect
