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Roanoke
Roanoke is founded under the sponsorship of Sir Walter Raleigh. It disappears a few years later. https://www.britannica.com/story/the-lost-colony-of-roanoke -
great migration (puritan)
Many young English people migrated to America.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/American-colonies/How-colonization-took-place -
Jamestown
Jamestown, the longest lasting English settlement, is founded. https://www.britannica.com/place/Jamestown-Colony -
house of Burgesses
House of Burgesses is established, to be used as a meeting hall for a governing body of England. https://www.britannica.com/topic/House-of-Burgesses -
Mayflower, Plymouth, and the Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower sets sail, landing in Cape Cod. The settlement is named Plymouth. The Mayflower compact was signed aboard the Mayflower. It laid the framework for the Plymouth government. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mayflower-Compact -
Carolina
King Charles creates the province of Carolina, though north and south colonies will split in 1670.https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/north-carolina -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
The colony is founded in 1630 by Puritans seeking religious freedom. https://www.britannica.com/place/Massachusetts-Bay-Colony -
Maryland
Maryland is established as a haven for Roman Catholics. https://www.britannica.com/place/Maryland-state/The-colony -
Rhode Island
Rhode Island is founded by Roger Williiams after he is banished from Massachusetts. https://www.britannica.com/place/Rhode-Island-state/History -
Connecticut
Connecticut is founded and its borders are finalized.https://www.britannica.com/place/Connecticut/Government-and-society -
Salutary neglect
The British laxly enforced taxes and barely paid attention to America's need for a government that wasn't across an ocean. https://www.britannica.com/topic/salutary-neglect -
New York
New Amsterdam is captured and renamed New York. -
Bacon's rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon holds an armed rebellion against William Berkeley. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nathaniel-Bacon -
Maryland toleration act
Parliament grants freedom of worship to nonconformists.
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Pennsylvania
William Penn founds Pennsylvania as a home for him and his fellow Quakers.https://www.history.com/topics/us-states/pennsylvania -
Salem Witch Trials
Many young girls are tried and executed for "witchcraft" https://www.britannica.com/event/Salem-witch-trials -
Great awakening
A religious revival led by George Whitfield. He urged people to recognize their own sinfulness and the rationalism in New England.https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Awakening -
French-Indian war
A fight between France and Great Britain, to determine who owned America. Specifically, a fight that started over who owned the upper Ohio river valley.(apparently, no one thought to ask the Natives.) https://www.britannica.com/event/French-and-Indian-War -
Albany plan
Benjamin Franklin proposes a unified government for the British.
colonies.https://www.britannica.com/event/Albany-Congress -
Proclamation of 1763
England declared that no one could move into previously settled Native land. https://www.britannica.com/event/Proclamation-of-1763