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Roanoke
John White went to England to get more supplies. When he returned no one was there everyone was dead. they were captured and was sent to the new land but then later were all gone.
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Jamestown
First permanent English settlement in North America, located near present-day Williamsburg, Virginia. the colony gave England its first foothold in the European competition for the New World.
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House of Burgesses
Governor George Yeardley gave notice that the Virginia colony would establish a legislative assembly. to make it easier for them to understand what was happening with Virginia.
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Mayflower/ Plymouth/ Mayflower Compact
The ship sailed on a northern path across the Atlantic to avoid them,but she was damaged by a bad storm halfway to America. The compact was a legal instrument that bound the Pilgrims together when they arrived in New England.When the Pilgrims left England, they obtained permission from the King of England to settle on land farther to the south near the mouth of the Hudson River.
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New York
New York was one of the first colonies. New York was in the middles colonies. It was a royal colony until 1776. The Duke of York founded the colony in 1626.
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Great Migration
During the 17th century the puritans traveled to New England area. They had a lot of people go over to the new world. They left because they were being persecuted.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
Founded by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England under Gov. John Winthrop and Deputy Gov. Thomas Dudley. In 1629 the were allowed to trade along the coast.
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Maryland
Located on the Atlantic coast of North America. Was classified as one of the Southern Colonies. George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore received a charter to found a colony east of the Potomac River from King Charles I. He was a declared Roman Catholic and wished to found a colony in the New World first for economic gain and soon after as a place where Catholics could live without fear of persecution.
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Connecticut
The Dutch came over and established trading post along the cost. People also moved to have more land and more say in what was happening. They moved from Boston and Massachusetts because they were getting over populated so they moved south.
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Rhode Island
Roger Williams founded Rhode Island because he was banished from Massachusetts. He wanted people to choose what religion they followed. In the 19th century Rhode Island became the forefront for the industrial revolution.
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Maryland Toleration Act
The act was a pragmatic solution to a serious problem. The Catholics in originally Catholic Maryland had become a minority of the population although still powerful politically. They were in great danger of being ill-treated by the Protestant majority. The Toleration Act, it was believed, was a way of providing protection for Catholics while at the same time representing a nod in the direction of the English government.
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Carolina
Nathaniel Batts, a farmer from Virginia founded a permanent settlement in North Carolina. King Charles II recognized the efforts of eight noblemen who helped him regain the throne in England by giving them the Province of Carolina.
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Bacon's Rebellion
It was a fight between Berkeley and Bacon. Bacon was not happy with how things were run in Virginia. He wanted to change things but it was not easy for him.
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Pennsylvania
Was classified as one of the Middle Colonies. n March 1681 Charles II of England signed a charter giving any unoccupied regions to William Penn in payment of a debt owed by the king to Penn’s father, Adm. Sir William Penn. The charter, which was officially proclaimed on April 2, 1681, named the territory for Admiral Penn and included also the term sylvania (“woodlands”), at the son’s request.
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Salem Witch Trials
More than 200 people were accused of being called by the devil. Twenty people were killed for not repenting. They were scared of people turning on their church.
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Geat Awakening/ Enlightenment
The revival preachers emphasized the “terrors of the law” to sinners, the unmerited grace of God, and the “new birth” in Jesus Christ. One of the great figures of the movement was George Whitefield, an Anglican priest who was influenced by John Wesley but was himself a Calvinist. Jonathan Edwards was the great academician and apologist of the Great Awakening. He preached justification by faith alone with remarkable effectiveness.
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Albany Plan
The plan would have established a centralized government to oversee the colonies and to shore up defense for the looming French and Indian War, was not a plan for independence.
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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.
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French-Indain War
American phase of a worldwide nine years’ war, fought between France and Great Britain. It determined control of the vast colonial territory of North America.
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Proclamation of 1763
At the end of the French and Indian War, Great Britain was faced with the problem of ruling over a vast new territory in North America. The French and their Indian allies lost the war, and in the Treaty of Paris of 1763, ceded all lands in North America from the Appalachians to the Mississippi over to Great Britain. The task of governing this vast territory presented many problems to Great Britain.
https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/1763-proclamation-of
