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Roanoke
Roanoke was the first English settlement in North America, established by Ralf Lane and led by John White. When White returned he no longer had his colony due to no good resources and lack of food. Now called the "long lost colony."
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Jamestown
John Smith emerged as a Jamestown leader. In 1609, things were so bad that the colonists boarded a ship to leave but then met with a ship full of supplies and went back. In 1612 John Rolfe and his wife Pocahontas experimented with growing tobacco, which was Virginias first profitable export. The Virginia Company offered free land to those who came there. In March of 1619, Native Americans killed 25% of the European settlers in Jamestown.
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House of Burgessess
The House of Burgesses was established by governor George Yeardley in Jamestown on July 30th. In 1643 Sir William Berkley, made it split into a sperate assembly of the therafter bicameral assembly. This gave people the goods they needed for materials and originated laws along with veto or revision.
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Great Migration
John Winthrop was the one who founded this place. They left England in May and arrived to America in June. The Puritans came to the America's to live a natural and peaceful life. Soon enough they established the Massachusetts Bay colony.The Puritans could read and had many other skills they could do. It was the biggest and most successful colony.
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Mayflower, Plymouth and Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower all started with pilgrims boarding this ship. After 65 days at sea they finally arrived at Cape Cod. The Mayflower compacts established the foundation for the colonies government. It was the first self government plan in colonies and pledged that decisions will be made by men. In 1620 the pilgrims settled the Plymouth colony.
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New York
New York was a middle colony that was settled by the Dutch in 1624. They called it the New Netherlands and New York City was called New Amsterdam. Henry Hudson was the one who explored it in 1611 for the dutch. Dutch landholders were given huge tracks of land that they could rent out to tent farmers. In 1652-1674, the Dutch and British fought 3 naval wars. In 1664, the British sent naval fleets to seize New Netherlands and the dutch surrendered without a fight.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
In 1630, the Puritans settled the Massachusetts Bay colony. With a charter from King Charles 1, about 1,000 puritans settled in Massachusetts. They were led by governor John Winthrop who said "We shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of people re upon us." This became the largest and most influenced New England colony eventually swallowed up the the Plymouth colony.
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Maryland
Was a southern colony, settled by Lord Baltimore in 1632. He was a catholic who convinced King Charles 1 to grant him to 100 million acres for persecuted catholics to settle. Maryland was settled as a Propriety colony.
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island was a New England Colony, settled by Roger Williams and his supporters in 1635. Williams was banished from Massechusetts Bay Colony for speaking out against the government authorities punishing religious dissension against consfication of Native Americans land. Then he found Rhode Island where there was no religious perscution of christians.
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Connecticut
Connecticut was a New England colony, founded and settled by Thomas Hooker in 1636. The first written constitution in North America was here. If you also were a citizen there, it was based off of land not religion or anything other than land. Connecticut became the most industrialized nation.
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Maryland Toleration act
"An act concerning religion." This act reinsured the freedom of religion and made blasphemy a crime. This was the start of free religion and beliefs without persecution.
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Carolina
Carolina was a southern colony, settled by Supporters of King Charles 2 in 1663. He granted 8 supporters land in Carolinas. They had easy access to the trade in the West Indies, and people settled in the Carolinas to grow crops like rice, indigo and tabbacco.
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Bacons Rebellion
Bacons Rebellion was the first colonial rebellion against the royal control. White farmers were given more rights but the planter class remained in power over everyone. Laws making Africans hereditary slaves. Nathanial Bacon, raised on unauthorized militia of indentured servants, slaves and farmers to retaliate against a series of Native American attacks on the Virginia frontier.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was a middle colony, settled by William Penn. In 1681 King Charles 2 granted Penn a character for the colony of Pennsylvania. He established the colony as a holy experiment, where every man received 50 acres and the right to vote.
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Salem Witch Trails
The Salem Witch Trails occurred in Massachusetts, which was what they thought when the devils spirit was within you. Mostly women were accused, women that practiced christianity but believed that the devil could harm others in humans souls. This put so many people in jail and operated from their families.
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Salutary Neglect
This was a policy of the British government, regulating trade with North American colonies. This led to American independence later on. This transported all goods that was needed for states and colonies that didnt have what they needed.
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Great Awakening
The Great awakening was the series of christian rivals between Britain and its other 13 colonies. This act effected Protestantism to strive to renew religious and individually rights.
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Albany Plan
This was an idea to place the British North American colonies under a little nicer and more relaxed government. On July 10, seven representatives of British colonies adopted the Albany Plan. This was the first proposal to conceive of the colonies as a whole united under one government.
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French Indian War
Great Britain and France were fight over the territory of the control of the Ohio River. This war was also called the seven years war, because it spread to Europe. It came to an end with the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 was right after the Great Britain war and gained a lot of land from it,. This proclamation stopped American colonist from settling in the west of the Applachias.
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