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England defeats the Spanish Armada
A fleet assembled and dispatched by King Phillip II of Spain in attempt to invade England -
Colony at Roanoke Island
A late 16th-century attempt to establish a permanent English settlement in what later became the Virginia Colony -
Settlement at Jamestown
English colonists settle along the west bank of the James River in Virginia -
First Anglo-Powhatan War
Pitted the English settlers at Jamestown against an alliance of Algonquian-speaking Virginia Indians -
Mayflower Compact
To establish their own authority and to aviod a possible mutiny, the Pilgrim leaders drew up and signed an aggreement -
Establishment of the Carolinas
Sir Robert Heath was granted a tract embracing the Carolinas, but no settlements were made under the grant -
Establishment of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
John Endecott to begin a plantation in Salem -
Banishment of Roger Williams
Guilty of spreading "newe & dangerous opinions" and banished -
Establishment of Rhode Island
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Pequot War
The suffering of the Indians reached a breaking point -
Banishment of Anne Hutchinson
Expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony -
Fundamental Orders
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Second Anglo-Powhatan War
Last effort by the Indians to dislodge the Virginian settlers -
Maryland Act of Toleration
Gave Protestants and Catholics the right to worship freely -
Barbados Slave Code
Law passed by the colonial legislature to provide a legal base for slavery -
King Philip's War
Wampanoag warriors raid the border settlement of Swansee, Massachusetts -
Bacon's Rebellion
Uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony in North America, led by a 29-year-old planter, Nathaniel Bacon -
Dominion of New England
Engraving was published in 1879, original seal was from 1686 -
First Great Awakening
A Christian revitalization movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America -
Establishment of Georgia
The last original 13 colonies