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Roanoke
The governor of the Roanoke Island John White, was on a supply-trip to England and he returned to find the settlement deserted. About 100 colonists he left behind were gone and there was no trace of them, but there was also no trace of violence either.
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Jamestown
The Jamestown settlement was in the Colony of Virginia. It was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas. It was established by the Virginia Company of London as "James Fort" and was considered permanent after brief abandonment. Several failed attempts followed it, including the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Jamestown served as the capital of the colony of Virginia for 83 years.
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House of Burgesses
The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America, it was established by the Virginia Company. The house was created 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.
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The Great Migration
The Puritan Great Migration is the migration of 20,000 English settlers, primarily Puritans to Massachusetts and the West Indies, especially Barbados.
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Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower was an English ship that transported the first English Puritans/Pilgrims from Plymouth, to the New World. There were 102 passengers, and the crew is estimated to have been 30. The signing of the Mayflower Compact was an event which established a form of democracy, with each member contributing to the welfare of the community.
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New York
The New York Colony was founded by Peter Minuit it was originally a Dutch colony called New Amsterdam. The Dutch surrendered the colony to the English and they renamed New York, after the Duke of York.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Massachusetts Bay Colony was an English settlement on the east coast of North America around the Massachusetts Bay, it was later reorganized as the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The lands were located in central New England in what is now Massachusetts.
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Connecticut
A prominent Puritan minister Thomas Hooker and Governor John Haynes of the Massachusetts Bay Colony are considered to be the founders of the Connecticut colony. They led 100 people to present day Hartford.
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Maryland Toleration Act
The Maryland Toleration Act, was also known as the Act Concerning Religion. This was a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians. It was passed by the assembly of the Maryland colony. It was the second law that required religious tolerance in the British North American colonies. Specifically, the bill, now referred to as the Toleration Act, granted freedom of conscience to all Christians.
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Carolina
The Province of Carolina was an English and later a British colony of North America. Carolina was founded in what is modern-day North Carolina. Carolina expanded south and, at its greatest extent, included the modern states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi, and parts of modern Florida and Louisiana.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania was first colonized by Swedish and Dutch settlers in the 17th century, before the English took control of the colony. In 1681, William Penn established a colony based on religious tolerance; it and its chief city, Philadelphia, was settled by many Quakers. In the mid-eighteenth century, the colony attracted many German and Scots-Irish immigrants.
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Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
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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. 20 people were executed, 14 of them were women.
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The Great Awakening
The great awakening was a evangelical and revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, especially the American colonies, that left a permanent impact on American Protestantism.
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Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of Union was Benjamin Franklin's plan to make a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies. He then became a senior leader and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress in Albany, New York.
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French-Indian War
The French and Indian War comprised the North American theater of the worldwide Seven Years' War. The colonies of British America were against the colonies of New France. Both sides had support from military units. At the start of the war, the French were outnumbered by the British. The French depended on the Indians. The European nations declared war on one another in 1756. The British won the war.
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The Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation was a result of a revolt of Native Americans by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America. This closed colonial expansion westward and was the first measure to affect all thirteen colonies.
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Salutary Neglect
Salutary neglect refers to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England. The term comes from Edmund Burke's "Speech on Conciliation with America" given in the House of Commons.
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Maryland
The colony of Maryland was founded by Lord Baltimore. Maryland was known to have been established with religious freedom for Roman Catholics. The economy was based on tobacco as a commodity crop, cultivated primarily by African slave labor, although many young people came from Britain as indentured servants in the early years.
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams. Rhode Island was a prosperous colony with its fertile soil and ample harbors. after the French and Indian War, Rhode Island was severely impacted by British import and export regulations and taxes. The colony wanted movement towards independence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island
