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Jamestown
Jamestown Colony, first permanent English settlement in North America, located near present-day Williamsburg, Virginia. Established on May 14, 1607, the colony gave England its first foothold in the European competition for the New World, which had been dominated by the Spanish since the voyages of Christopher Columbus in the late 15th century.
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Great Migration
The Great Puritan Migration was a period in the 17th century during which English puritans migrated to New England, the Chesapeake and the West Indies.
English migration to Massachusetts consisted of a few hundred pilgrims who went to Plymouth Colony in the 1620s and between 13,000 and 21,000 emigrants who went to the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1630 and 1642. https://historyofmassachusetts.org/the-great-puritan-migration/ -
House of Burgesses
House of Burgesses, representative assembly in colonial Virginia, which was an outgrowth of the first elective governing body in a British overseas possession, the General Assembly of Virginia. The General Assembly was established by Gov. George Yeardley at Jamestown on July 30, 1619. The assembly met in Jamestown until 1700, when meetings were moved to Williamsburg, the newly established capital of colonial Virginia.
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Mayflower/Plmouth/Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the Separatists, also known as the "Saints", fleeing from religious persecution by King James of Great Britain. They traveled aboard the Mayflower in 1620 along with adventurers, tradesmen, and servants, most of whom were referred to as "Strangers".
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New York
The New York Colony was classified as one of the Middle Colonies. The Province of New York was an English colony in North America that existed from 1626 until 1776, when it joined the other 12 of the 13 colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of New York.
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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. -
Connecticut
The Connecticut Colony was an English colony in British America. The Connecticut Colony or Colony of Connecticut, was formed in what would become the US state of Connecticut. It was first called the River Colony and was organized on March 3, 1636. It was a place for Puritan noblemen. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Colony -
Rhode Island
Rhode Island is one of the original colonies of US of America. Rhode Island is classified as one of the new England colonies, located on the Atlantic ocean in the Northern states. This colony was established in 1636, Roger Williams was its founder and other colonist. Rhode Island main city was Providence.
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Maryland Toleration Act
The Maryland Toleration Act was a law passed in the U.S. colony of Maryland in 1649 that protected Christians from fights and discrimination. This mostly applied to Catholics and Protestants. It was an important step to religious freedom for the colonies. -
The Carolinas
The Carolina Grant began as one entity. Geographical and political differences among its English settlers would eventually cause a split. North Carolinians were small tobacco farmers, not plantation builders. South Carolinians developed a low-country agricultural system that relied upon slave labor to grow and export rice, cotton, and indigo. http://www.smplanet.com/teaching/colonialamerica/colonies/carolinas -
Maryland
Maryland guaranteed people in Maryland the freedom to practice whatever religion they wanted. Like other states Maryland had slavery. Maryland had people from a lot of different faiths. Some of these religions were: Quakers, Presbyterians, Puritans, and Episcopalians. Baltimore was the state's biggest city was not founded until 1729. Maryland's major industries were shipbuilding, iron works, tobacco and flour. They also grew corn, wheat, rice and indigo. -
Bacon's rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. His grievances against the governor stemmed from Berkeley's dismissive policy to the political challenges of its western frontier, particularly leaving Bacon out of his inner circle and refusing to allow Bacon to take part in fur trading with Native Americans.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was founded in English North America by William Penn on March 4, 1681 as dictated in a royal charter granted by King Charles II. -
Salem witch trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693. More than 200 people were accused, 19 of whom were found guilty and executed by hanging. One other man, Giles Corey, was crushed to death for refusing to plead, and at least five people died in jail. It was the deadliest witch hunt in the history of colonial North America.
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Great Awakening/ Enlightenment
British Atlantic priests experienced an outburst of Protestant revivalism known as the First Great Awakening. During the First Great Awakening, evangelists came from the ranks of several Protestant denominations Congregationalists, Anglicans and Presbyterians. They rejected what appeared to be sterile, formal modes of worship in favor of a vigorous emotional religiosity.
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French-Indian War
The French-Indian War was fought between Britain and France, along with their respective colonists and allied Indian groups, for control of land in North America. Occurring from 1754 to 1763, it helped trigger – and then formed part of the Seven Years War.
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Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress in July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York. -
Proclomations of 1763
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.
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Salutary Neglect
Salutary neglect is the 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.
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Roanoke
The history of Roanoke, Texas, began in 1847 when a small group of 20 settlers and their families settled near Denton Creek, north of the present location of Roanoke. https://www.roanoketexas.com/222/History
