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Roanoke
It was established in 1585, as the Queens attempt at establishing a permanent settlement in North America. Its also known as the Lost Colony.
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Salutary Neglect
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Jamestown
First permanent English settlement in North America.
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House of Burgesses
First assembly of elected representatives in North America. It was established by the Virginia Company, which created the body as a part of an effort to encourage English craftsmen to settle in North America.
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Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
It was the first piece of written documentation stating the framework for the government. They signed it in Plymouth.
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Puritan Migration To New England
English Puritans went to Massachusetts and the West Indies, especially Barbados. They came in family groups, rather than alone, motivated to freely practice their religion.
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New York
The new York colony was originally named a Dutch colony called new Amsterdam, founded by Peter Minuit. in 1664 the English gained this colony and renamed New York, after the Duke of York.
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
Established by the puritans in an attempt to purify the church. and start over.
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Maryland
One the southern colonies which included Virginia Colony, North Colony, and South Carolina Colony. It was founded by Cecil Calvert and Lord Baltimore and others.
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Connecticut
Known as the River Colony was organized as a place for puritan Noblemen. Early on the leader was John Winthrop Jr. They struggled with the Dutch for possession and the English eventually got it.
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Rhode Island
Settled by Roger Williams after he was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious views.
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Maryland Toleration Act
A law that granted religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians.
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Carolina
Part of the 13 colonies but was later split into North and South Carolina. North attracted frontiersmen while the south attracted wealthy English planters.
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Bacon's Rebellion
Bacon accused Berkeley of having unjust taxes and laws. He then led a rebellion with his own Militia.
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Pennsylvania
Was one of the original 13 Colonies. Founded by William Penn.
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Salem Witch Trials
In the spring of 1692 a group of young girls claimed to be possessed by the devil and accused multiple people in the town of doing it to her. These trials led to hangings and 20 deaths.
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Great Awakening/Enlightenment
Evangelical movement that went through the colonies. It gave the people a sense of their for Jesus Christ.
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Albany Plan
Although never carried out it was the first important proposal to conceive of the colonies as collective whole under one united government.
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French-Indian War
It was a war between Britain and France with some help from the Indians. They fought over the French expansion into the Ohio River Valley. Fought between 1754 and 1763.
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Proclamation of 1763
Issued after the French-Indian War and stated the halt on colonial expansion westward.
http://www.revolutionary-war-and-beyond.com/proclamation-of-1763.html
