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Roanoke
The Roanoke Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was established in 1585 on Roanoke Island in what is today's Dare County, North Carolina. It was a late 16th-century attempt by Queen Elizabeth I to establish a permanent English settlement in North America. The colony was founded by Sir Walter Raleigh. -
Jamestown
The settlement of jamestown in the Virginia colony was the first permanent British colony in the americas. Jamestown "was the beginning of the British empire," writes William kelso. It was called "jamburg" in the Virginia company in London on May 4, 1607. -
House of Burgesses
House of Burgesses was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America. The House was established by the Virginia Company, which created the body as part of an effort to encourage English craftsmen to settle in North America, and to make conditions in the colony more agreeable for its current inhabitants -
Mayflower
Mayflower is ruling Plymouth colony's first file. It is written by male passenger has "may flower", it consists of the self-proclaimed "saints" separatist rallies and adventurer and businessmen, and most of them is referred to as the "stranger" separatists. Later, both groups known as the pilgrims or Puritan ancestors. Separatists are from Britain's king James to escape religious persecution. -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Massachusetts bay colony (1628-1691) was the province of the British colonies that reorganized the Massachusetts bay after several colonies in the north American east coast in the 17th century. -
Carolina
The carolinas were British and then British north American colonies. Carolina was founded in today's north Carolina. South Carolina expanded, to a large extent, nominally include north Carolina, south Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi, as well as the modern parts of Florida and Louisiana. -
Great Awakening
Great awakening or great awakening is the protestant religious revival, for the first time in the 1630 s and went through the protestant Europe and the United Kingdom in the 1640 s. This is an evangelical and Renaissance, its influence on American protestant produced a permanent. This is due to the powerful sermon, make the audience has a deep personal revelation, they need the salvation of Jesus Christ. -
Maryland
The Maryland colony was one of the original 13 states on the Atlantic coast of North America. The original 13 colonies were divided into three geographical regions, New England, central and southern colonies. The Maryland colony was classified as one of the southern colonies. The Maryland state was a British colony in North America, from 1633 to 1776, joined in 12 other times against Britain's 13 colonies, became Maryland. -
Connecticut
Connecticut was called Connecticut River Colony or simply the River Colony, was an English colony in North America that became the U.S. state of Connecticut. Connecticut Colony played a significant role in the establishment of self-government in the New World with its refusal to surrender local authority to the Dominion of New England, an event known as the Charter Oak incident which occurred at Jeremy Adams' inn and tavern. -
Maryland Toleration Act
Maryland's tolerance act, also known as the "religion law," is a law that applies religious tolerance to christians in the trinity. It was passed on 21 April 1649 at the Maryland colonial assembly in st Mary's. -
New york
The New York was a British proprietary colony and later royal colony on the northeast coast of North America. New York as one of thirteen colonies. New York achieved independence and by work with the others to found the United States. -
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. -
Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania colony was one of the first 13 colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America. The original 13 colonies were divided into three geographical regions, including New England, central and southern colonies. The Pennsylvania colony was listed as one of the central colonies. Pennsylvania is a British colonies in North America, from 1682 to 1682, it has to do with another 12 of the 13 colonies unite against the British colonies, as the Pennsylvania. -
Salutary Neglect
This meaning and definition are useful to ignore: the beneficial neglect is the long-term policy of Britain in 13 colonies, which allows the colonists to flout or violate trade-related laws. It is expensive to send British troops to the United States without effective enforcement agencies. The British salute was not recorded. From the 1690s to 1760, this useful and neglected policy and era lasted until 1760 and benefited colonial residents from trade. -
Salem witch trials
The Salem witch trials were a series of hearing and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. Like the crucible. -
Albany Plan
The alliance of Albany plan is a plan to establish a unified government thirteen colonies, recommendations by Benjamin Franklin, and then to senior supervisor and a representative from Pennsylvania, at Albany congress on July 10, 1754 in Albany, New York. More than twenty delegates from the north Atlantic colonies gathered to plan the defense of the French and Indian wars, the seven years of war between Britain and France. -
French-Indian War
The French and Indian wars (1754-63) constituted the north American combat zone of the 1756-63 world war. It made the British American colonies contend with the new French colonies. Both sides have received support from British and French military units as well as American Indian Allies. -
Proclamation of 1763
The royal proclamation of 1763 is on October 7, 1763, by the king George iii at the end of the French and Indian war with the French territory in North America, this is at the end of the French and Indian war in the seven years' war, banning all settlements along a line of the Appalachian mountains. -
Rhode Island
On May 4, 1776, Rhode Island became the first of the thirteen colonies to relinquish its allegiance to the crown of the United Kingdom, and the fourth sovereign state to ratify the federal regulations, February 9, 1778. It boycotted the 1787 convention, enacted the constitution of the United States, and initially refused to approve it; This is the last original state, May 29, 1790. -
Great Migration
Great Migration was the movement of 6 millions African-Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the cities of North, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1916 and 1970. Until 1910, more than 90 percent of the African-American population lived in the American South.
