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Roanoke
The lost colony of Roanoke was founded by Sir Walter Raleigh. The mayor, John White, left for supplies. Upon his return, the colonists had disappeared and were nowhere to be found. The only evidence was CRO carved into a tree. https://www.britannica.com/story/the-lost-colony-of-roanoke -
Jamestown https://www.britannica.com/place/Jamestown-Colony
A group of investors were granted a charter by King James I for the establishment of the Virginia Company of London on April 10, 1606. "Virginia" was the English name for the entire East Coast of North America north of Florida. The company got the right to settle anywhere from roughly present-day North Carolina to New York state from the charter. Rewarding investors by locating mineral deposits and finding a river to the Pacific Ocean for trade with the Orient was the Company's plan. -
House of Burgesses
House of Burgesses was an assembly of representatives. It was hosted in colonial Virginia. Which was an outgrowth of the first elective governing body in a British overseas possession. https://www.britannica.com/topic/House-of-Burgesses -
Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mayflower-Compact
Mayflower- The ship that carried the Pilgrims to Massachusetts where they found their first permanent New England colony in 1620.
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Plymouth- A group of around 100 English men and women set sail for the New World aboard the Mayflower. Two months later, the ship landed on the shores of Cape Cod. https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/plymouth
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
Massachusetts Bay Colony is one of the original English settlements in present-day Massachusetts. It was settled in by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England in 1630. They did this under John Winthrop and Deputy Gov.King Charles I granted a charter to the Massachusetts Bay Company empowering them to trade and colonize in New England between the Charles and Merrimack rivers.
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Maryland
Leonard Calvert landed the founding expedition on St. Clements Island in the lower Potomac in March 1634. The first settlement and capital was made and it was called St. Mary's City. Maryland’s settlers were aware of the mistakes made by Virginia’s first colonists. The field hands included indentured labourers working off the terms of their passage. -
Connecticut
Trading posts were established along the Connecticut River by the Dutch from New Amsterdam and by the English from the Plymouth colony. The first European settlers to stay in the middle Connecticut River valley during 1633–35. They came from Massachusetts Bay Colony. Thomas Hooker founded Hartford. The Connecticut River settlements and the New Haven colony were united in 1665. https://www.britannica.com/place/Connecticut/Cultural-life#ref78071 -
Pennsylvania
The Native American population was small and widely scattered at the time of European settlement. Tribes of the Ohio River valley lived in the central and western parts of the state. The first European settlers in Pennsylvania were Swedes. Johan Printz of the colony of New Sweden established his capital on Tinicum Island in 1643. https://www.britannica.com/place/Pennsylvania-state/History -
Salutary Neglect
Salutary Neglect contributed to increasing autonomy of colonial legal and legislative institutions. This led to American independence. All goods exported to England, or its colonies had to be transported on ships. https://www.britannica.com/topic/salutary-neglect -
Bacon's rebellion https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nathaniel-Bacon
Nathaniel Bacon was destined to the life of a country squire before his arrival in Virginia in 1674. In the interest of unlimited territorial expansion, Bacon endorsed a policy of removing all Indians. In defiance of Berkeley, in 1676, Bacon organized an expedition against the Indians. Bacon managed to control the government for a time. He called a reform assembly to lower tobacco price scales. Soon afterward, Bacon died of fever, and the rebellion collapsed. -
Maryland Toleration Act
The act of Parliament granted freedom of worship to Nonconformists. It demonstrated the idea of a “comprehensive”. This also allowed Nonconformists their own places of worship and their own teachers and preachers.
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Salem Witch Trials
Witch hunts began in Europe between 1300 and 1330. After the abatement of the European witch-hunt fervour, the Salem trials occurred late in the sequence. It peaked from the 1580s and ’90s to the 1630s and ’40s. Some European witch hunts took place in western Germany. Also the Low Countries, France, northern Italy, and Switzerland. The number of trials varied but it is generally believed that 110,000 people where convicted of Witchcraft. https://www.britannica.com/event/Salem-witch-trials -
Great Awakening/Enlightenment
Great Awakening-religious revival in the British American colonies mainly about 1720
https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Awakening Enlightenment - European movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were produced into a worldview that gained wide assent in the West and that instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics.
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Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of Union provided for a loose confederation presided over by a president general. Also having a limited authority to levy taxes to be paid to a central treasury. Benjamin Franklin later wrote, "and I am still of opinion it would have been happy for both sides the water if it had been adopted." The Albany Plan proved to be a farsighted document that contained the seeds of the solution to colonial problems. https://www.britannica.com/event/Albany-Congress#ref60791 -
French-Indian War https://www.britannica.com/event/French-and-Indian-War
The French-Indian War was an American phase of a worldwide nine years’ war (1754–63). It was fought between France and Great Britain. Issues of whether the upper Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire was the main cause of the war. In the 15th century British territorial claims rested upon explorations of the North American continent by John Cabot. The region of Carolina was created down south of Virginia, with a sea-to-sea grant in 1663. Carolina charter was amended two years later. -
Proclamation of 1763
Proclamation happened at the end of the French and Indian War in North America, it was declared by the British crown.It has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada. https://www.britannica.com/event/Proclamation-of-1763 -
Rhode Island
In May 4, 1776, the Rhode Island Assembly voted to break ties with Britain and became the first independent state in North America. This played an important role in the American Revolution. The Rhode Island delegates to the Second Continental Congress voted to support the Lee Resolution two months later. This confirmed the independence of all 13 American Colonies from Great Britain. https://www.americanhistorycentral.com/entries/rhode-island-colony-early-history-and-settlement/ -
Carolina
Carolina is town located in the northeastern part of Puerto Rico. The barrios (wards) north of the Loíza were separated under a new name. This name was San Fernando de la Carolina, after Charles II of Spain. The town eventually absorbed the remainder of Trujillo Bajo under the new name. https://www.britannica.com/place/Puerto-Rico -
The Great Migration
In the year 1900 , nearly eight million black people, about 90% of black people lived in the south. Six million black Southerners relocated to the north and west from 1916 to 1970. They were in search of economic opportunities. Also for an escape of racial violence. https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Migration -
New York
New York was the country’s leading state in nearly all population, cultural and economic indexes until the 1960s. it was displacement by California beginning in the middle of that decade. This was caused by the enormous growth rate that has persisted on the West Coast rather than by a large decline in New York itself. In 2000 Texas overtook New York as the second most populous state. New York remains one of the most populous states in the country. https://www.britannica.com/place/New-York-state