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New York
Giovanni de Verrazano first explored the area that is now New York in 1524. The region was next explored by Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain in the early 1600's. It was first settled by the Dutch in 1613, who built trading posts along the Hudson River. The Dutch named the colony New Netherland. http://mrnussbaum.com/history-2-2/nycolony/ -
Roanoke
Known as the lost colony, it was established in 1585 on Roanoke island which is now present day Dare County, North Carolina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roanoke_Colony -
Great Migration
The Puritan migration to New England was marked in its effects in the two decades from 1620 to 1640, after which it declined sharply for a time. The term Great Migration usually refers to the migration in this period of English Puritans to Massachusetts and the West Indies, especially Barbados. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puritan_migration_to_New_England_(1620%E2%80%9340) -
Jamestown
On May 14, 1607, a group of roughly 100 members of a joint venture called the Virginia Company founded the first permanent English settlement in North America on the banks of the James River http://www.history.com/topics/jamestown -
Salutary Neglect
Salutary neglect is an American history term that refers to the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British Crown policy of avoiding strict enforcement of parliamentary laws meant to keep American colonies obedient to England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salutary_neglect -
House of Burgesses
The first legislative assembly in the American colonies.The first assembly met on July 30, 1619, in the church at Jamestown. Present were Governor Yeardley, Council, and 22 burgesses representing 11 plantations (or settlements) Burgesses were elected representatives. http://www.ushistory.org/us/2f.asp -
Mayflower Compact
The Mayflower Compact was the first agreement for self-government to be created and enforced in America. On September 16, 1620 the Mayflower, a British ship, with 102 passengers, who called themselves Pilgrims, aboard sailed from Plymouth, England. http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/symbols_freedom/pages/mayflower.html -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Massachusetts Bay Colony. Massachusetts Bay Colony, one of the original English settlements in present-day Massachusetts, settled in 1630 by a group of about 1,000 Puritan refugees from England under Gov. John Winthrop and Deputy Gov. Thomas Dudley. https://www.britannica.com/place/Massachusetts-Bay-Colony -
Maryland
The Province of Maryland[1] was an English and later British colony in North America that existed from 1632[2] until 1776, when it joined the other twelve of the Thirteen Colonies in rebellion against Great Britain and became the U.S. state of Maryland.
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Connecticut
The southernmost state in the New England region of the northeastern United States -
Rhode island
The Rhode Island Colony was one of the original 13 colonies located on the Atlantic coast of North America. The original 13 colonies were divided into three geographic areas consisting of the New England, Middle and Southern colonies https://www.landofthebrave.info/rhode-island-colony.htm -
Maryland toleration act
The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians. It was passed on April 21, 1649, by the assembly of the Maryland colony, in St. Mary's City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryland_Toleration_Act -
Carolina
The Province of Carolina was an English and later a British colony of North America. Carolina was founded in what is modern-day North Carolina. Carolina expanded south and, at its greatest extent, nominally included the modern states of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi, and parts of modern Florida and Louisiana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Carolina -
Bacons rebellion
Bacon's Rebellion was an armed rebellion in 1676 by Virginia settlers led by Nathaniel Bacon against the rule of Governor William Berkeley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_Rebellion -
Pennsylvania
On March 4, 1681, Charles II of England granted the Province of Pennsylvania to William Penn to settle a £16,000 (around £2,100,000 in 2008, adjusting for retail inflation) debt the king owed to Penn's father. Penn founded a proprietary colony that provided a place of religious freedom for Quakers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Pennsylvania -
Salem whitch 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. -
Great Awakening
The Great Awakening or First Great Awakening was a Protestant religious revival that swept Protestant Europe and British America in the 1730s and 1740s. An evangelical and revitalization movement, it left a permanent impact on American Protestantism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Great_Awakening -
Albany plan
The Albany Plan of Union was a proposal to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin, then a senior leader (age 45) and a delegate from Pennsylvania, at the Albany Congress in July 10 1754 in Albany, New York. -
French indian war
Seven Years’ War, this New World conflict marked another chapter in the long imperial struggle between Britain and France. http://www.history.com/topics/french-and-indian-war -
Proclamation of 1763
he Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War, which forbade all settlement past a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763
