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Roanoke is founded
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/06/lost-colony-roanoke-history-theories-croatoan/
John White's expedition was founded by Sir Walter Raleigh. He founded the colony of Roanoke, and left. He came back 3 years later and everybody was gone, and the only thing left was the words CRO and CROATOAN carved on trees. -
Jamestown
https://www.britannica.com/place/Jamestown-Colony
On May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River. Famine, disease and conflict with local Native American tribes in the first two years brought Jamestown to the brink of failure before the arrival of a new group of settlers and supplies in 1610. -
House of Burgesses
https://www.britannica.com/topic/House-of-Burgesses
The first colonial government in Jamestown, Virginia. It was founded by governor George Yeardley, and representatives were appointed by the Virginia Company -
Great Migration
https://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-great-puritan-migration/
Many puritans from England wanted to flee persecution, so they went to America and settled there. People wanted to be free to choose their beliefs, and were tired of the Church of England being synonomous with the Catholic religion. -
Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/mayflower
The Mayflower was the ship that carried the Pilgrims from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, where they established the first permanent New England colony in 1620. The Mayflower Compact was a set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower. It was the first self-government plan in the colonies. -
Massachussetts Bay Colony
https://historyofmassachusetts.org/history-of-the-massachusetts-bay-colony/
Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the original English settlements in present-day Massachusetts, settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England under Gov. John Winthrop and Deputy Gov. Thomas Dudley. -
Maryland
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Maryland was a southern colony settled by Lord Baltimore. Lord Baltimore was a Catholic who convinced King Charles I to grant him 100 million acres for persecuted Catholics to settle. Unfortunately, Baltimore died before he was able to do anything with the land. His son, Cecil Calvert took over managing the colony. The toleration act of 1649 granted religious freedom to all Christians living in Maryland. -
Rhode Island
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Rhode Island was a New England colony founded by Roger Williams and his supporters. Roger Williams was eventually banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for speaking out against government authorities punishing religious dissention and against the confiscation of Native American land. -
Maryland Toleration Act
https://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1601-1700/maryland-toleration-act-11630122.html
With England in the hands of Puritans and Protestants beginning to outnumber Catholics in Maryland, the colony's legislature passed an Act of Toleration to ensure the religious liberty of Maryland's Catholics. The 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. -
Carolina
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King Charles granted 8 supporters land in the Carolinas. With easy access to the trade in the West Indies, people settled in the Carolinas to grow cash crops like rice, indigo, and tobacco. These labor intensive crops required a huge labor force. By 1720, African slaves outnumbered European settlers in the Carolinas 2:1. -
Bacon's Rebellion
https://www.britannica.com/event/Bacons-Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was a revolt against the British in Jamestown led by Nathaniel Bacon. Bacon and many of the other colonists were frustrated with economic issues that centered primarily on mercantilism. They took out this frustration on the local Indians, raiding them and taking their goods. -
Pennsylvania
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In 1681, King Charles II granted William Penn a charter for the colony of Pennsylvania. Penn established the colony as a "holy experiment", a place without a landowning aristocracy where every male settler received 50 acres and the right to vote. In the 1660s, William Penn became a quaker and his colony soon became a haven for quakers. -
Salem Witch Trials
https://www.history.com/topics/colonial-america/salem-witch-trials
The infamous Salem witch trials began during the spring of 1692, after a group of young girls in Salem Village, Massachusetts, claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused several local women of witchcraft. Over 150 men, women, and children were accused of being witches within a few months. In total, 19 people were killed for supposedly being witches. -
Great Awakening/Enlightenment
https://www.history.com/topics/british-history/great-awakening
The Great Awakening was a religious revival that impacted the English colonies in America during the 1730s and 1740s. The movement came at a time when the idea of secular rationalism was being emphasized, and passion for religion had grown stale. Christian leaders often traveled from town to town, preaching about the gospel, emphasizing salvation from sins and promoting enthusiasm for Christianity. -
Albany Plan
http://totallyhistory.com/albany-plan-of-union/
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to place the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. On July 10, 1754, representatives from seven of the British North American colonies adopted the plan. Although never carried out, the Albany Plan was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government. -
French-Indian War
https://www.britannica.com/event/French-and-Indian-War
Also known as the Seven Years’ War, this New World conflict marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France. When France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley brought repeated conflict with the claims of the British colonies, a series of battles led to the official British declaration of war in 1756. -
Proclamation of 1763
https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by the British at the end of the French and Indian War to appease Native Americans by checking the encroachment of European settlers on their lands. 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. -
Salutary Neglect
https://www.britannica.com/topic/salutary-neglect
Salutary neglect, policy of the British government from the early to mid-18th century regarding its North American colonies under which trade regulations for the colonies were laxly enforced and imperial supervision of internal colonial affairs was loose as long as the colonies remained loyal to the British government and contributed to the economic profitability of Britain. -
Connecticut
https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/connecticut
Founded by Thomas Hooker, Connecticut was one of the four New England colonies, and was derived from an Indian word meaning "River whose water is driven by tides or winds". -
New York
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Dutch colony originally called New Netherlands and capital city of New Amsterdam. In 1664 it was seized by the British and renamed New York, after the Duke of York, the brother of King Charles II
