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Roanoke
Roanoke was known as the lost colony, and was the first attempted English colony in North America. The colony had a lack of supplies ans bad relationship with natives. This caused many members to return to England. When John white came back with his men and supply's the colony had vanished. No one knows where the people of the colony went to this day.
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Jamestown
Jamestown was the first established permanent English colony in the Americas. Many there died of decease and ate each other.
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House of Burgesses
The lower house of the colonial Virginia legislature.
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Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
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.
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New York
The New York Colony was one of the original 13 colonies located on the Atlantic coast of North America.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was a colony located near Massachusetts. It mostly consisted of Puritans, who wanted to stay under English rule but wanted to purify the church.
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The 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.
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Maryland
The Maryland Colony was one of the original 13 colonies located on the Atlantic coast of North America. The Maryland Colony was founded in 1633 by George Calvert, Lord Baltimore and other colonists, at Baltimore.
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Connecticut
After they left Massachusetts they went to spread Puritanism in Connecticut.
https://connecticuthistory.org/whats-a-puritan-and-why-didnt-they-stay-in-massachusetts/ -
Rhode Island
Roger Williams founded the colony in 1636. He guaranteed religious and political freedom. Religious refugees from the Massachusetts Bay Colony settled in Rhode Island. It was one of the most liberal colonies.
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The Maryland Toleration Act
The Maryland Toleration Act was a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians.
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Carolina
he North Carolina Colony was one of the original 13 colonies located on the Atlantic coast of North America. The North Carolina Colony was founded in 1653 by the Virginia colonists.
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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. https://www.nps.gov/jame/learn/historyculture/bacons-rebellion.htm -
Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania Colony was one of the original 13 colonies located on the Atlantic coast of North America. The Pennsylvania Colony was founded in 1682 by William Penn and other colonists.
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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.
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Great Awakening / Enlightenment
The Great Awakening was a series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its Thirteen Colonies between the 1730s and 1740s.
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Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies.
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French-Indian War
Also known as the 7 years war. It was the colonies against New France. American Indians took both sides in the war. Helping who they wanted to win.
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Proclamation of 1763
The Proclamation of 1763 forbid all settlement in the west. It was made by the British crown.
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Salutary Neglect
The act of avoiding strict enforcement from Britain.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/salutary-neglect
