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Roanoke
Roanoke, also known as the lost colony, was established on what is North Carolina. The colony was founded by Sir-Walter Raleigh. The colonists disappeared three years after the colony was established. No one knows what happened to them. -
Jamestown
About 100 settlers came here to make the first settlement. They settled in Virginia and made the first permanent settlement. Even though disease and famine hurt them in the beginning, a new group of settlers came and brought supplies to help the town thrive. -
House of Burgesses
The first legislative assembly in the colonies. They met at the church in Jamestown. They had 22 burgesses representing each 11 colonies. It elected two representatives from each colony. -
Mayflower/Plymouth/Mayflower Compact
The merchant ship called the "Mayflower" set sail from England with 102 passengers. They came to the New World in order to set up a church in the New World. The Pilgrims set up the colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts. The Pilgrims then set up their own government in the New World called the Mayflower Compact. It made the society more civil and organized. -
New York
This was one of the original 13 colonies. The colonies were divided up into three groups and New York was a part of the Middle Colonies. It was founded by the Duke of York and other colonists that came from Manhattan Island. -
Massachusetts Bay Colony
In the beginning this group of settlers got the permission to make a settlement. The group was 1000 Puritans which settled here under Governor John Winthrop and Deputy Governor Thomas Dudley. The first settlement they made in this colony was in Salem, Massachusetts. -
Great Migration
The Puritans left England to go to America to escape religious persecution and economic problems. 60,000 people left for the colonies. 10,000 to 20,000 went to Massachusetts. -
Maryland
Maryland was considered one of the original 13 colonies and was apart of the Southern Colonies section. It was founded by George Calvert and Lord Baltimore. They established it for a safe place for the Roman Catholics. -
Connecticut
One of the original 13 colonies. It was founded by Thomas Hooker and the Puritans. Governor John Haynes of Massachusetts and Thomas Hooker led 100 colonists to Connecticut. It was considered one of the New England colonies. -
Rhode Island
This was one of the original 13 colonies. It was founded by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson and was classified as one of the New England colonies. Williams came to Rhode Island because he was exiled from the Massachusetts colony. -
Maryland Toleration Act
Cecilius Calvert, the owner of Maryland, decided that he wanted to keep the Catholics safe from persecution in England. He let the Catholics come to his colony in order to be safe from persecution. He started to make a lot of money from this decision. But the Catholics started to become outnumbered and the Maryland Assembly started the Toleration Act in order to protect their rights. -
Carolina
This land was found in between Virginia and Florida by King Charles II. He gave this land to 8 of his supporters. Eventually in 1712 the colony split due to different geography and each became North and South Carolina. -
Bacon's Rebellion
This was a rebellion lead by Nathaniel Bacon against the Governor William Berkeley. This rebellion occurred in Virginia because Berkeley wasn't listening to the colonists about their safety. -
Pennsylvania
One of the original 13 colonies and a part of the Middle Colonies. William Penn was given this colony and wanted it to be a place for the Quakers. He also wanted the colony to be a Holy Experiment which meant that everyone of all different kinds of religions could live here safely. Even the Native Americans were treated fairly. -
Salem Witch Trials
These trials occurred in Massachusetts because they accused women of witchcraft. This led to the execution of twenty people which were sixteen women. Some of them were hanged and others died in prison. This led to mass hysteria in the colony. -
Great Awakening/Enlightenment
The Great Awakening began around the 1730s by Jonathan Edwards because he started to get upset that the people in the colonies were concerned with worldly issues than listening to their religious matters. This became a reaction against the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment became a focus of studies which then lead to the American Revolution and lasted from 1714-1818. -
Albany Plan
Benjamin Franklin and a delegate came up with this plan in order to keep the 13 colonies unified with a strong government plan. This was the first important plan of government the colonies ever had even though it never went through. -
French-Indian War
Sometimes called the Seven Years' War because it lasted 1756-1763. The French wanted to expand but it caused conflict between the British colonies. The French won support of the Indians. Towards the end of the war France started to lose and their possession of Canada. -
Proclamation of 1763
King George III came up with this idea after the French and Indian War in order to control British colonies to expand westward. He thought this would prevent the Indians from being attacked by white colonists and the colonists would be protected from Indian revolts. This divide was at the Appalachian Mountains and the colonists couldn't cross them. -
Salutary Neglect
It was a term that meant Britain had control over the colonies and Britain had these laws over the colonies. These laws weren't meant to be strict because it was in order to keep the colonies loyal to England.
