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Roanoke
Also known as the Lost Colony, was the first attempt at founding a permanent English settlement in North America. It was established in 1585.
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New York
The New York Colony was first the Dutch's trading outpost of New Netherlands. Then in 1626 officials of the Dutch West India Company founded New Amsterdam which then became New York.
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Jamestown
Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas from the Colony Virginia.
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House of Burgesses
The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in North America. The House was established by the Virginia Company.
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Great Migration
The Great Migration was a period in American history when twenty thousand English men, women, and children crossed the Atlantic Ocean to settle New England between 1620 and 1640.
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Mayflower/ Plymouth/ Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony. It was written by the male passengers of the Mayflower, which included Separatist, Puritans, adventurers, and tradesmen.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
In 1629 the Massachusetts Bay Colony got a charter from King Charles that gave the company legal power to trade and colonize in New England between the Charles and Merrimack rivers.
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Carolina
Carolina was founded by 8 of King Charles II supporters. They were obsessed with cash crops so they had a 2 to 1 ratio of slaves to European settlers. Carolina was a Southern Colony.
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Maryland
Maryland was one of the first original 13 colonies of America. It was founded as a refuge for English Catholics.
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams. It was explored by Adrian Block, who was in that area from the Netherlands, he called it "red island" because of the good soil that was there. (red clay)
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Maryland Toleration Act
The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was a law authorizing religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians.
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Connecticut
The Connecticut colony began its founding in 1633 when the Dutch established the first trading post on the Connecticut River Valley in now the town of Hartford. The founder of Connecticut was Thomas Hooker.
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Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was a conflict that happened in Jamestown. Some people believe it was the first act of "colonial defiance" leading up to the American Revolution. Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Colony was founded in English North America by William Penn on March 4, 1681 as dictated in a royal charter granted by King Charles II.
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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/Enlightment
Great Awakening was a religious and spiritual movement while the Enlightenment was a movement that centered on scientific spirit and reasoning.
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Albany Plan
The Albany Plan of Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany_Plan -
French-Indian War
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Proclamation of 1763
This royal proclamation shut down colonial expansion westward and was the first act to affect all thirteen colonies.
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Salutary Neglect
Salutary neglect was Britain's unofficial policy, initiated by prime minister Robert Walpole. It was made to ease the enforcement of strict laws and regulations given to the American colonies late in the seventeenth and early in the eighteenth centuries. https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Salutary_Neglect
