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Roanoke
The first English settlement in America. Also home to the fist baby born in America: Virginia Dare. John White, the leader of the colony, went to England to get more supplies. When he returned in 1590, the settlement was deserted. All the settlers had mysteriously disappeared. The only clue he found was the word "Croatoan" carved in a tree. To this day no one knows what happened to them.
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Jamestown
Jamestown was the first permanent British settlement. John Smith emerged as Jamestown's leader. He declared that those who didnt work, dont eat. In 1609, things were so bad the colonists boarded a ship to leave only to be met by a ship with supplies and more colonists so they returned to Jamestown.
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New York
New York had its first settlers in 1614. The Dutch were able to claim what became New York as "New Netherlands".
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House of Burgesses
The House of Burgesses was the first legislative assembly in the American colonies. It held its first meeting on July, 30th 1619. Governor George Yeardley arrived in Virginia from England and announced that the Virginia Company had voted to abolish martial law and create a legislative assembly.
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Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
In 1620, the pilgrims (separatists) settled the Plymouth Colony. About 100 passengers including 35 pilgrims set sail aboard the Mayflower for a location near the Hudson River, an area thought to be part the Virginia colony. After 65 days at sea, the Mayflower set anchor at Cape Cod. the Mayflower Compact established the foundation for the colony's government.
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Great Migration
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. The puritans left England due to religious persecution and for economical reasons also.
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Connecticut
Connecticut is the southern most state of the New England region and northeastern of America. Connecticut's first settlers were Dutchmen who established a small, short-lived settlement called Fort Hoop in Hartford at the confluence of the Park and Connecticut Rivers. The first major settlements were established in the 1630s by the English.
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Massachusetts bay colony
In 1630, the Puritans settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony. With a charter from King Charles I, about 1000 Puritans settled in Massachusetts. It became the largest and most influential New England colony eventually swallowing up the Plymouth Colony.
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Maryland
Lord Baltimore was a catholic who convinced King Charles I to grant him 100 million acres for persecuted Catholics to settle. Maryland was settled as a propriety colony, which meant that the owner of the colony was the ruler, not the British king. Baltimore died before he was able to do anything with the land. His son Cecil, took over managing the colony.
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island is a New England colony, settled by Roger Williams and his supporters in 1635. Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for speaking against government authorities punishing religious dissention and against the confiscation of Native American land. He founded Rhode Island where there was no religious persecution.
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Maryland Toleration Act
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. "...no person or persons whatever within this Province, or the islands, ports, harbors, creeks, or havens belonging to it, who professes to believe in Jesus Christ, shall from henceforth be any way troubled, harassed or embarrassed for …his or her religion..." -
Carolina
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Bacon's rebellion
. Bacon's Rebellion can be attributed to a myriad of causes, all of which led to dissent in the Virginia colony. Economic problems, such as declining tobacco prices, growing commercial competition from Maryland and the Carolinas, an increasingly restricted English market, and the rising prices from English manufactured goods caused problems for the Virginians.
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Pennsylvania
In 168, 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 1660's, William Penn became a Quaker and hi colony soon became a haven for Quakers. -
Salem witch trials
Young girls claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused of being witches. 150 people were imprisoned for witchcraft, 7 died in prison, 19 men and women were found guilty and hung and 1 person was crushed to death for refusing. the hysteria ended in September 1692.
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Great Awakening/Enlightenment
The Great Awakening was a religious revival that swept through the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. It was started by Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield also made significant contributions. The Enlightenment was a cultural and intellectual movement that challenged old traditions and emphasized reason. It began in the mid 17th or early 18th century with scientists like Isaac Newton and writers like John Locke.
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French-Indian war
The French and Indian War began over the specific issue of whether the upper Ohio River valley was a part of the British Empire, and therefore open for trade and settlement by Virginians and Pennsylvanians, or part of the French Empire. Settlers of English extraction were in a preponderance in the coveted area, but French exploration, trade, and alliances with Native Americans predominated.
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Albany Plan
the Albany Plan of Union was to place the the British North American colonies under a more centralized government. Although the Albany Plan was never carried out, it was the most important proposal to conceive of the colonies as a collective whole united under one government.
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Proclamation of 1763
In 1763, at the end of the French and Indian War, the British issued a proclamation, mainly intended to conciliate the Indians by checking the encroachment of settlers on their lands. In the centuries since the proclamation, it has become one of the cornerstones of Native American law in the United States and Canada.
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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.
