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Roanoke
A small colony founded on the eastern coast of North America. It would've been the first permanent English colony in the New World, if the disappearance of the settlers didn't happen for an unknown reason. -
Jamestown
Jamestown sits at the confluence of the James River and Pipestem Creek. the place was settled around 1871, but founded in 1607. -
Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
Document signed on the English ship on November 21. At the landing at Plymouth, also as the first framework of The Government in the land called the United States. -
New York
Apart of the original 13 colonies, New York is a constituent state of the United States of America. It's bounded between the west and north of Lake Erie. The capital of New York is Albany. -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Apart of the original English settlements. Settled in 1630 by a group of 1000 Puritan refugees. -
Maryland
A constituent state of the United States. One of the original 13 states, it lies in the centre of the Eastern Seaboard. -
Connecticut
Another constituent state of the United States of America. Also apart of the original 13 states, it's one of the 6 New England states. Also located on the northeastern corner of the country. -
Rhode Island
It is a constituent state and apart of the original 13 states of the United States of America, also apart of the original 6 New England states. It's bounded by the north and east of Massachusetts. -
House of Burgesses
A representative assembly in colonial Virginia, which was an outgrowth of the first elective govern body in a British overseas possession, the general Assembly of Virginia -
Carolina
Several European explorers made their way to present-day North Carolina. In 1524, the Italian investigator, Giovanni da Verrazzano arrived on the mouth of Cape Fear River. -
Bacon's rebellion
In the labor of the New World, percent of the rebels in Bacon's Rebellion, were blacks, both servants and freedmen. The social position of Africans and their descendants for the first 6 or 7 decades of colonial history seems to be open and fluid and not overcast of an ideology of inequality or inferiority. -
Pennsylvania
Another constituent state of the USA, one of the original 13 colonies founded in 1681 by William Penn according to History. It lays in the south bounded to the Northern side of Lake Erie. -
Maryland Toleration Act
In 1689, an act of Parliament granted freedom of worship to nonconformists. It was one of the series of measures the firmly established the Glorious Revolution, (1688-89) in England. -
Salutary Neglect
Informed by the British Government regarding the North American Colonies under which trade regulations for the colonies were laxly enforced and imperial supervision of international colonial affairs. -
Salem witch trials
In American History, a series of investigations and persecution that caused 19 convicted witches to be hanged and any other suspects to be imprisoned in Salem village in Massachusetts Bay colony. -
Great Awakening/Enlightenment
Religious revival in the British American colonies mainly between about 1720s-1740s. It was apart of the religious ferment that swept western Europe in the latter part in the 17th century. -
Albany Plan
Pennsylvania delegate, presented the so called Albany plan of Union, which provided for a loose confederation presided over by a president general and having a limited authority to levy taxes to be paid to a central treasury. -
French-Indian War
An American phrase of a world-wide nine years' war fought between France and Great Britain.The more complex European phase was the seven year' war. It determined control over the vast colonial territory of North America. -
Proclamation of 1763
Declared by the British crown after the French and Indian war in North America, used to conciliate the Native Americans by checking the encroachment of settlers in their land. -
Great Migration
In U.S. history, the movement of millions of African Americans from rural communities in south to urban areas in Northern and Western states during the 20th century.